"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 257
CAPT. WILLIAM MOUNT, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Hamilton County,
Ohio, October 25, 1827, and is the eldest of the four children of Obadiah B.
and Gitty A. (Skillman) Mount, both natives of Ohio, who moved to Union
County, Ind., about 1837, on the 2d of February of which year Mr. Mount
departed this life. William Mount received a fair education from the common
schools, and learned the ancient vocation of farming, which he followed
until the summer of 1862; then, together with W. W. Wingett, raised Company
G, of the Sixty ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteers, Mr. Mount being made
First Lieutenant, but was acting Captain most of the time, that officer
being on detached duty. He was in the following engagements: Richmond
(Ky.), Arkansas Post, Thompson's Hill, Raymond, Baker's Creek, Black River
Bridge, and with Gen. Grant at Vicksburg. After his regiment was
transferred to Texas, he participated at the battle of Mobile, where he
received a slight wrist wound and was mustered out, but discharged at
Indianapolis in August, 1865. The war being over, he removed to Columbus,
Ind., where he engaged in the grocery business for several years, when he
sold the same, removed to Indianapolis, and was some time on the special
police force; thence he removed to this county in 1879, where he has since
resided on a good farm of 100 acres. December 1, 1846, he married Miss
Eleanor Dare, with a result of one child--Edward F. (deceased). Capt. Mount
is an energetic Republican, a liberal, charitable gentlemen, a shrewd man of
business and a valued citizen. His mother resides with him, and is a member
of the Presbyterian Church since girlhood.
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