"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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WILLIAM FOSTER HADLEY was born in Brown Township, Morgan County, Ind.,
August 3, 1855. His parents, JEREMIAH and ELIZA E. (MCCRACKEN) HADLEY, were
North Carolinians, and traced their ancestral blood to the persecuted
Quakers of the British Isle. They accompanied their respective parents into
Indiana probably about half a century ago, and here they married and reared
a family of eight children, William F. being the youngest son and seventh
child. The subject of this sketch spent the first eight years of his life
upon the farm, and his education, which consisted of a thorough English
course, was acquired before he was seventeen years of age. At the age of
twelve years, he was placed in charge of the M. & M. Gravel Road Toll Gate,
just west of Mooresville, and at this time his business career commenced.
At the age of fifteen, he entered the grocery house of R. R. SCOTT, at
Mooresville, as clerk, and the following year studied the mysteries of
pharmacy in the drug store of J. EDWARDS. It will not be forgotten that up
to this time his winters had been regularly spent at school. In the fall of
1872, he went into the Mooresville office of the Indianapolis & Vincennes
Railroad, and there learned the art of telegraphy, which he followed
professionally for the next nine years. December 29, 1880, he was married
in Morgan County to CASSIE, daughter of GEORGE FARMOR, and has had born to
him one child--EVERARD F. May 16,1881, he was elected cashier of the
Farmers' Bank of Mooresville, and has since filled that position. In the
spring of 1882, the citizens tendered him the office of Treasurer of
Mooresville, but the trust was declined for reasons of his own. He is a
member of the firm of A. W. Hadley & Bro., in the manufacture of drain
tiles, and up to June, 1883, was largely interested in the grain and coal
business. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and in politics
a Republican. He is a thorough business man, a gentleman and a scholar.
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