"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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JOHN FRANKLIN HADLEY is of the sturdy old Quaker stock, and adheres
faithfully to the teachings of that unostentatious society. A native farmer
and stock grower of Brown Township, is the youngest son of AARON and LYDIA
(HADLEY) HADLEY, originally of North Carolina, was born January 14,1840, and
educated at the Friends White Lick School. He was married, March 13, 1860,
to LYDIA ANN, daughter of WILLIAM MACY (deceased), and has had born to him
four children--WILLIAM A., LINNIE, MAHLON and CORA. His son William is
studying medicine, Mahlon is at Earlham College, and the accomplishments of
his daughters are not being neglected. In the fall of 1880, Mr. Hadley was
elected County Commissioner, and re-elected thereto in 1882. He was one of
the organizers of the Farmers' Bank of Mooresville, and for eight years was
one of its directors. Though a straight Republican politically, he is not
radically partisan, and to this fact was due his first nomination for the
office of County Commissioner. His second nomination and election resulted
naturally from the efficient manner in which the affairs of the office were
administered during his first incumbency. Mr. Hadley holds the office of
Assistant Dictator in the order of K. of H.; he is an unqualified advocate
of prohibition, and was among the very first public men in Morgan County to
oppose the system of legally licensing the whisky traffic. Mr. H. owns and
resides upon the farm upon which he was born and reared.
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