People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 27-25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — DAVID NOWELS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DAVID NOWELS.

David Xowels was born in Holmes county, Ohio, £eM, 15, 1821, being the seventh son in a family • of eight sons and three daughters. When he was but three years of age his parents moved to Portland, Fountain county. Ind. The family lived here until about 1850 when the mother died This broke up the home and scattered the family, and. when in the fail of 1834, his father, John Xowels, his eldest sister and her husband, Joseph Yeoman, moved to the ‘'Rapids of the Iroquois," he. then a lad of thirteen, accompanied them'. The present site of Rensselaer was chosen as a suitable place for settlement and here our little band of pioneers reared the first, humble cabin within the present limits of Jasper county. Young Xowels was the first white boy who ever came to the co mty, and he has resiled here from that early period until now, more than six tv vears.

March 10, 1842, he was married to Phebe Ann Benj main, and moving to the north part of what is now Marion township, they 7 erected a little cabin and with willing hands and courageous hearts as their only capital began in real earnest the stern struggle of pioneer life. Here for nearly forty years was their home, until having acquired by sturdy endeavor and frugality a reasonable competence for future years, they, some fifteen years ago, came back to Rensselaer to spend the remaining years of life in rest and quietude. They 7 have six children living, and three dead. Four boys—Ezra C., the eldest, now living in Colorado, William R., Charles D.. and David B. residing in Rensselaer. Two girls--Mary 11. Grow, wife of Henry Grovy. residing north of Rensselaer five miles, and Ida A. Randle, wife of Robert Randle, living in Rensselaer. If suffering with piles, it will interest you to know that De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve will cure them. This medicine is a specific for all complain s of this character, and if instructions (which are simple) are carried out, a care will result. We have tested this in numerous cases, and always wit.i like results. It never fails. A. F. Long, Druggist.

DAVID NO WELS, SR.