"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
JACKSON TOWNSHIP AND MORGANTOWN
PAGE 252
ABRAM B. HART, stock-raiser and farmer is a native of this township; was
born July 13, 1819, in Sussex County, N.J., and is the third of four
children born to Nathaniel and Mercy (Rose) Hart, natives of New Jersey, and
respectively of English and Irish extraction. Abram was reared a farmer,
and in 1841 came to this county, locating where he still resides. With the
help of $1,300, he has succeeded in life, and owns a farm of 220 acres, 150
of which are under fine cultivation, with good orchard and many
improvements. February 8, 1840, he married Miss Sarah A. Chipps, daughter
of Morris and Margaret Chipps, of New Jersey, with a result of nine
children--Mercy, Margaret A., Amos S., Mary (deceased), Aaron R. (deceased),
Mahala E., John W., Sarah E. and Emma M. Mr. Hart is a practical and
prosperous farmer, and a life-long Democrat, having given his first vote for
Mr. Van Buren. He is a man of progressive ideas, and a model father and
husband, and a very greatly esteemed citizen.
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