People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — HOME OF B. F. FERGUSON. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME OF B. F. FERGUSON.

B.*F. Ferguson was horn in Randolph county, North Carolina, May 31, 1850; at the age of three years his parents emigrated to Indiana. Thence to Missouri in 1856, and passed through the trials and hardships incident to the border ruffians and of the civil war up to 1863. when, with parents moved to Tippecanoe courfty, Indiana. Began teaching school at the age of sixteen, and continued in that profession for ten years. He also entered the ministry inj 1872, and for more than twenty years had charge of a Kidd of labor, having received many hundreds- into the visible church. He came to Jasper county in August, 1879, and established a lumber yard j where the firm of John W. Paxtcn & Co. are now located. Since that time he has been actively interested in the business enterprises of town, being foremost in some of the most important public undertakings. He established 1 and installed the electric light plant, and the Krst glow of light was sent out on the 29th day of May, 1889, and since that time Rensselaer has been numbered among the Krst of its size to have electric light. Mr. Ferguson has made a sort of Gretna Green of Rensselaer; having married oveP’ two hundred couples during his residence here. He is also frequently called upon to preside at the obsequies of his many friends. He is now a member of the Krm of Ferguson & Wilson, office 3rd door south of A. McCoy & Co.'s hank, and invites every one to call. r