"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
GREGG TOWNSHIP
PAGE 343

BENJAMIN CORNWELL was born in Oldham County, Ky., December 3, 1844, and is
the eldest of the five children of John and Minerva (Williams) Cornwell, natives of
Kentucky, who located in Washington County, Ind., where our subject grew to manhood
and obtained the common education the schools afforded. During boyhood, Benjamin
learned the blacksmith trade, at which he labored until August, 1861, when he enlisted in
Company K, Fifty-third Indiana Volunteers, and served actively at Vicksburg, Black
River, Bolivar, Jackson, Shiloh and on other fields; received an honorable discharge in
1864, and afterward engaged at farming for one year, then resumed blacksmithing, at
which he has since continued. November 16, 1865, he wedded Vernilla Ludlow, of this
county, and they have become parents to five children, three of whom are living - John
Milton, Altha and Levada. Mr. Cornwell is an excellant man and a patriotic citizen. Like
all the soldiers, glory nestles around him and shows him worthy of confidence and
support. He is an esteemed citizen, and Mrs. C. is a member of the Christian Church.

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