"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
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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BENJAMIN F. TROGDON, farmer and stock dealer of Brown Township, Morgan
County, Ind., second of the twelve children of Joel J. and Sallie I.
(Julian) Trogdon, was born in Randolph County, N.C., February 15, 1847. His
parents emigrated from Carolina to Missouri, and from there came to Indiana
in 1865, our subject having at that time been in Morgan County about five
years. Benjamin grew to manhood on a farm, and at the common schools
acquired the rudiments of an English education. On February 9, 1864, he
enlisted in Company L, Twenty-first Regiment, First Indiana Heavy Artillery,
and served until January 10, 1866. August 17, following, having laid aside
the accouterments of war, he donned those of a true civilian, and forgetting
not the many pretty promises he had made, and remembering the heart that
beat most wildly as two tearful eyes glanced over the dispatches that told
of the booming of the cannon at the siege of Mobile, he led to the altar
Elmira J. Moon, and there took upon himself the obligation which enrolled
him again in the service of his country, and through his commission entitles
him not to gilt bands and epaulets, he is nevertheless captain of the host
which to the time of sweetest music engendered by happy hearts goes marching
on, making the world better for having lived in it. Mr. and Mrs. Trogdon
are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They have had born to them
four children--Ada B. (deceased), Lena D., Glenney V. and Ida May. Mr. T.
is a self-made man, and there is nothing in his make-up that he need be
ashamed of. He belongs to the I. O. O. F. and G. A. R.
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