Hardin Co

John Gaines Gholson b. Feb. 21, 1851 died Feb. 04, 1913 m. Francis "Fannie" Baker in Posey Ind. chrn. Elizabeth Annabel Grace, Ernest, Clarence Tomzen, Anna & Mary Cordelia. He was a school teacher & Attorney in Broughton, IL., both Hamilton County & Hardin County at Elizabethtown. He is author of "New Physics, The Grammar System & the Participle" He signed many papers just as J.G. Gholson.

From an old tin type: I would like to find him in a school or other photo if someone has one. I would like to know about the above articles that were written by him and any other information about him from Hamilton or Hardin Counties. He was a member of the Greenback Party.

Greenback party a U.S. political organization founded (1874-76) to promote currency expansion. Its principal members were Southern and Western farmers stricken by the Panic of 1873. They nominated Peter COOPER for president in 1876, but he received only 81,737 votes. Uniting with labor in the Greenback-Labor party (1878), they polled over 1 million votes and elected 14 representatives to Congress. Thus encouraged, and with a broadened program that included woman suffrage, federal regulation of interstate commerce, and a graduated income tax, they nominated James B. WEAVER for president (1880). But the return of prosperity had allayed discontent, and their vote declined to a little over 300,000. Following the 1884 election the party dissolved. Many members later joined the Populists.