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JOHN F. GABRIEL, farmer and stock-raiser, section 33, post-office Carthage. He is a native of the Hoosier State, born in Boone county, Oct. 3, 1842. His father was a tanner, and our subject spent his youth in assisting in the tannery and acquiring a rudimentary education; and led a life comparatively barren of events up to the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted in May, 1861, in Company B, Seventeenth Regiment Indiana Mounted Infantry Volunteers. This regiment was the first to leave the state for the three years’ service, and its history adorns the brightest pages of the annals of Indiana soldiers during their service. They were considered invincible, and marched over 4,000 miles and captured upward of 5,000 prisoners, 6,000 stand of arms, 70 pieces of artillery, 11 stand of colors, and over 3,000 horses and mules. Fought in every state in the South and their dead lie buried in Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama. The company of which our subject was a member received the first Enfield rifles issued from the state, as a prize given in a competitive drill by volunteer companies. Mr. Gabriel was promoted to the non-commissioned staff of the division and served much of the time in that capacity. He was mustered out in 1864 and returned to his home in Indiana, and learned photography. In 1869 he came to Jasper county, and located at Carthage in the same business. He was appointed deputy United States marshal for the western district of Missouri in 1873. He purchased the farm upon which he lives in 1875, and of late years has been a tiller of the soil. The farm consists of 188 acres, nicely situated six miles from Carthage on the Avilla road. He was married at Lebanon, Ind., April 1, 1869, to Miss Jennie R. Rodefer, also a native of Indiana. They are the parents of five children: Ernest A., born Aug. 16, 1872; Earl S., born Nov. 2, 1874; May B., born Sept. 21, 1876; Hattie B., born March 10, 1879; and Anna M., born Nov. 30, 1882. Mr. G. is a man much above the average in intelligence, and takes an active interest in public affairs. He is a Democrat.