Hansel M. Scales

    Hansel M. Scales, ex-Treasurer of Warrick County, is a son of John and Louisa (Bogan) Scales and grandson of William and Mary (Skelton) Scales. William Scales and wife emigrated form North Carolina to Kentucky in 1803, and from there, four years later, to Indiana Territory, locating in what is now Gibson County. While there he enlisted for the war of 1812 and participated in the battle of Tippecanoe. After the close of the war he removed to Warrick County, farmed, taught school, served the county twice as Assessor, Sheriff two years and Treasurer one year, when he died in 1848. John Scales, his son, and father of our subject, was born in Gibson County, this State, in 1809 and followed farming throughout life. He died in 1860.

    Hansel M. Scales was born in Lane Township, this county (Warrick), November 30, 1841, and is one in a family of eleven children. He was raised on a farm, securing only a very limited education in youth and at seventeen years of age began clerking in a store at Lynnville. In 1860 he taught school in his native township and after that engaged in farming.

    December 17, 1863, he married Lorenna Robinson and by her is the father of four children. He served two terms beginning in 1870, as Assessor of Lane Township, and in 1873 was elected Trustee, serving in that office two terms. In 1880 he was elected County Treasurer, but owing to ill health declined a re-nomination.

    Mr. Scales is not a politician, but is a strong Democrat and wields considerable influence in his party. He owns a farm of 160 acres, is a member of the A. O. U. W. and one of the county's best citizens.

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.