inia he went to Van Buren County, Iowa, where he settled in the year 1851. There he resided until the year 1874, when with his family he came to Lancaster County, and settled on the farm now occupied by his family in Centerville Precinct.
   For five years the father of our subject engaged in farming on his new land, and being a public-spirited and sociable man, he enjoyed the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. He approved of all measures by which the education and cultivation of the people, and the fertility and general utility of the country surrounding him, could be secured. He was a kind and loving father, a devoted and thoughtful husband, a useful and enterprising citizen, and in his death, which occurred on the 15th of April, 1879, his family lost a most considerate and careful protector and the county one of its best citizens. He was one of the representative and intellignet German citizens of his precinct, and we are pleased to record these memorials of the esteem in which he was held in this collection of sketches.
   Charles Lidolph, our subject, came with the family to Lancaster County in 1874, and has since made this place his home. He has become the owner of 100 acres of the home farm, consisting of 320 acres, which has been accumulated by the industry of the family. On the 22d of November, 1878, he married Margaret Baker, who became the mother of two daughters: Alice M., born Feb. 1, 1881, and Maud M., born March 2, 1883, and died July 27, 1887. On the 22d of February, 1886, our subject was called to mourn the loss of his loved wife, who departed leaving a great wealth of love and affection in the hearts of her husband and daughter, and a large circle of friends to mourn her untimely death.
   What we have said of the father we can with equal truth and propriety repeat of the son. He has been a live, active and energetic member of society, amply qualified by his own attainments to take :in important share in the political, religious and educational movements of the day. Bereft of his helpmate and companion, he has had to work onward and upward without the encouragement of her smile and her voice, but her remembrance will ever be dear to him.
   Mr. Lidolph has been active in educational matters, and is now serving as School Moderator in his district.
   He gives his voice and the influence of his example in favor of the principles entertained by the Democratic party in politics, and is an esteemed member in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has profited well by the example which his father set him, and that, united to his own moral worth and steadfastness of principles, entities him to honorable mention among the leading of his precinct.

UDGE CHARLES M. PARKER. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait is presented on the opposite page, was born Aug. 28, 1840, in the village of Geneseo, in Livingston County, N. Y. In the fall of 1844, his parents, William and Melinda Parker, with their three children--Bruce, Helen and Charles--moved to Tippecanoe County, Ind., where the father followed the avocation of a farmer, the boys working with him on the farm during the Summer and attending the district school in winter; an uneventful life, with little to disturb the summer's work or winter's study until the stirring times of 1861, when the Civil War broke out, when both boys were desirous of enlisting in response to President Lincoln's first call for 75,000 men, but the father, being poor health and somewhat in debt on the farm, persuaded the boys to defer enlisting until a further demand for a larger army should be needed, at the same time promising them that in case a general call should be made and their services actually needed, that he would make no further objections to their both going into the service, assuring them that if his health would permit he, too, would go with them, though he was then fifty years of age.
   It was at such times as this and such conversations that the father related his recollections of his grandfather, William Parker, who served seven full years in the Revolution, participating in all of the principal engagements of that war, from Lexington, Monmouth, Bennington, Bunker Hill, etc., and finally at the siege and surrender of Yorktown, coming home with a bundle of worthless Continental money, and his faithful musket which for years passed

from generation to generation as an heirloom. Thus it will be seen that our subject came from good old Revolutionary stock, hence it is no wonder that during the first few months of the war he chafed and fretted "in the harness" on the farm, and that farm work no longer had anything like the usual charms for him. The fires of 1776 had descended to him from his illustrious great-grandsire, and were burning in his veins. He longed to be at the front, to stand between his country and her enemies, and to show that he was worthy the name he bore. His country, the sacred heritage received from the hands of his forefathers, he deemed too sacred to be assailed by any enemy, more especially by his own countrymen; the fact that her assailants were those who should be her defenders made her cause the dearer to him.
   When President Lincoln issued his call for 300,000 men he could be no longer restrained, especially as he had just attained his majority, but his father made no further objections to his enlisting, concluding that the time had come when he too must surrender a father's claim to his country's good. Sept. 5, 1861, our farmer's boy enlisted in Company A,. 46th Indiana Volunteers, under Capt. John H. Gould, which was assigned to the 46th Indiana Infantry, commanded by Col. Graham N. Fitch, afterward by Col. T. H. Bringhurst. The new regiment went into camp for instruction and organization at Logansport, Ind., where it remained until December 8, when it was ordered to the front. It proceeded by rail to Indianapolis, where it was reviewed by Gov. Morton, then to Madison, Ind., by rail; by steamer to Louisville, Ky. From Louisville the regiment marched to Green River, in the same State, where it went into winter quarters near Bardstown, Ky., where it remained until spring. When Gen. Grant was knocking at the doors of Fts. Henry and Donelson, the 46th Indiana was ordered forward in great haste to reinforce him, when the regiment reached the mouth of the Cumberland, where the joyous news was received that Donelson had surrendered; the regiment was then transferred to Gen. Pope's army on the Mississippi, and at once entered in earnest upon the rigorous duties of opening the Mississippi, first in reducing Island No. 10. The regiment participated in all of the engagements in that vigorous campaign and was "in at the death and capture."
   The regiment was then at Ruddles' Point, at Ft. Pillow, at Memphis June 6, 1861, where the 46th and 43d Indiana Regiments were the first troops to enter the city after the rebel fleet had been destroyed, our subject being one of the very first to set foot on the wharf amid that turbulent and enraged populace from Memphis, which had been reduced to order. The 46th was ordered on a cruise up the White River in Arkansas, where a severe engagement was fought at St. Charles, then returned and went into camp at Helena, Ark., where it remained most of the time until February, 1862, and then it was engaged in the Yazoo Pass expedition under Gen. Grant, thence down the river to join the Vicksburg campaign. His regiment bore a prominent part in the campaign, being engaged in nearly all of the skirmishes and battles of that memorable campaign, but more prominently at Hard Times Landing, Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Twelve-Mile Creek, Edwards' Station, Raymond, and (for him) finally at Champion Hills, May 16, 1863, where his regiment and the division to which it belonged (Alvin P. Hovey's) bore the brunt of the battle, leaving more than one-third of the entire division on the field either dead or wounded.
   Up to this time our subject had been universally fortunate, had enjoyed good health, participated in every engagement in which his regiment participated, accompanied it in all of its campaign marches, etc., had never been known to fall behind, no matter how hard the march, but was always in his place at the end of the day's march ready to "stack arms." But at Champion Hills his good fortune seemed to desert him; he came out of the engagement with the loss of his left arm near the shoulder, a severe wound in his left check and a bullet hole through his left ear. Possessed of a good constitution, he soon recovered from his wounds, and received an honorable discharge July 20, 1863.
   Upon his return home Mr. Parker was tendered a commission as Captain by Gov. Morton, as he was unfit for further duty in the ranks, but as his father had died during his absence he declined the commission, deeming it his duty to remain at home with his widowed mother, who was in feeble health,