History of Knox and Daviess County, Indiana; From the Earliest Time to the Present; With Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc.; Together W baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...March 11, 1852, he married Jane M. Patterson, a native of Knox County, Ind., born May 29, 1834. Nine children were born to them, six of whom are living: William A., Thomas E., Mary E., Samuel, Fannie, Henry, Ella, James E. and Dolly. Mrs. Cullop died June 25, 1874. She was an earnest Christian worker in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Cullop is a member of the I. O. O. F. and a Democrat in politics. His birth was on the first day of Andrew Jackson's administration, and he claims an uncompromising membership with that party. He was trustee of Busseron Township six and a half years, and filled the office acceptably and well. CHARLES F. DRUMMOND, proprietor of the Drummond Hotel, at Oaktown, Ind., was born April 1, 1843, in Illinois, being the second of six children of Charles E. and Catharine (Tarwater) Drummond. The father was born in Maine in 1815, where he remained until 1830, when he came to Knox County, Ind., and learned the blacksmith's trade. He then married and went to St. Louis, Mo. The mother was born near Knoxville, Tenn., in 1810, and came to Terre Haute, Ind., when a girl, thence to this county, where she married. They resided about five years in St. Louis and then returned to Indiana, where the father followed blacksmithing all his life. He died February 24, 1879. The mother died January 17, 1862. Charles F. was reared in Busseron Township, and his schooling was confined to the log schoolhouse of early days. At the age of eighteen he began working for himself, and August 17, 1862, he enlisted in Company K, Fifty-first Indiana Volunteers, and was in the service nearly nine months. He received a wound in the foot which yet disables him, and for which he was discharged at Murfreesboro, Tenn., April 6, 1863. He cultivated the...