James W. Slagle
 

JAMES W. SLAGLE, a progressive farmer of Perry township, Boone county, Ind. was born in Highland county, Ohio March 17, 1847, a son of Isaac and Anna (Marsh) Slagle, natives of Virginia. From Virginia the parents removed, a year or so after their marriage, to Ohio, and thence, in 1851, to Indiana, where they settled on the farm now owned by James W. They were the parents of six children, viz: John, deceased, Sarah, wife of Mr. Montgomery; Mary A., married to G. Funkhouser; Benjamin F., Jacob W., and James W. James W. Slagle was reared, from the age of four years, to manhood in Boone county, and inured to the hardships of farm life. October 6, 1863, he enlisted in battery I, Fourth Indiana light artillery, and took part in the battles at Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, and at other places; in September, 1854, he went to Atlanta, and in January, 1865, went to Chattanooga for the second time, and then again to Nashville, then back to Stone River, and was finally discharged at Indianapolis in August, 1865. On his return home he engaged in farm labor seven years; then, in 1873, he bought forty acres of good land, engaged in agriculture on his own account, and in 1880, purchased forty acres more, and October 1, 1884, purchased forty acres in addition, all of which, added to forty acres inherited, constitutes a home of 160. His marriage took place in this county, March 24, 1874, to Miss Elizabeth C. Holmes, who was born in Boone county, November 27, 1848, a daughter of Jones and H. and Elizabeth C. (Sallee) Holmes, and to this union have been born six children, viz: Jessie L., Leonidas L., Dollie F., Leslie A:, Leroy L., and Ross. Mr. Slagle is a republican in politics, and has served as delegate to the state convention from Perry township, and was elected trustee of Perry township November 6, 1894, on the republican ticket by a majority of forty.

Transcribed by: Chris Brown
Source: "A Portrait And Biographical Record of Boone and Clinton Counties, Ind.," page 478, published in 1895 by A. W. Bowen & CO. Chicago