"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 PAGE 224 ARNOLD W. HADLEY was born at Mooresville, Ind., May 8, 1846. His parents, JEREMIAH and ELIZA (MCCRACKEN) HADLEY, had eight children, of whom our subject was third, with two brothers older. He lived upon the farm with his parents until he was twenty-one years of age, spending about one-third of his "school age" in pursuit of an education. In 1867, he went to Kansas, and remained six years--four years in mercantile business, and two dealing in live stock. Returning to Indiana in 1873, he for the next succeeding ten years, in company with his brother, ran the Mooresville Elevator, handling large quantities of grain,and also dealt extensively in coal. September 16, 1873, he was married at Monrovia to ALMEDA, daughter of AMOS HUNT, deceased, and has had born to him two children--EDWARD J. and HERMON A. In April, 1883, as the head and sole manager of the firm of A. W. Hadley & Bro., he began the manufacture of drain tile at Mooresville, and at this writing they have one of the most extensive works of the kind in Morgan County. Mr. Hadley and wife are members of the Friends' Church, and he is Deputy (District) Grand Dictator of the Order of Knights of Honor. Subject is a Republican in politics, an active worker in the cause of temperance, and prominently identified with the educational interests of Mooresville.