"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 

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
RAY TOWNSHIP
PAGE 292

ASHBEN W. WALTERS was born in this township October 3, 1856, and is the sixth
child of Robert S. and Nancy A. (Duckworth) Walters, the former a native of Owen 
County, Ind., the latter of Kentucky.  Our subject was brought up on a farm and 
remained there until he was twenty-two years old, when he engaged in the dry goods
business at Paragon, and also atended two terms at Bedford Academy in 1878.
He remained in buisness one year;  then returned to the farm for two years, after
which he engaged with his brotehr-in-law in the drug business at Paragon;  he after-
ward went to Colorado, and engaged in mining for a short time, when he returned
home and resumed farming on the land entered by his grandfather.  Mr. Walters is
a radical Democrat, a member of the Baptist Church, a liberal gentleman and an
esteemed citizen.

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