Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 312

DANIEL PRUITT, farmer, brick-maker and brick-layer, was born in Old-
ham County, Ky., December 3, 1823, and is the third child in a family of 
eleven children born to Eli and Nancy (Williams) Pruitt, the former of whom
was a native of North Carolina and the latter of Washington County, Ky.
They were of German and English decent respectively.  When but a lad of
some four summers, in 1795, Eli Pruitt emigrated with his parents from 
North Carolina to Kentucky, which was then almost an unbroken wilderness.
They settled near the present site of Lexington, where his father, Bright
Pruitt, bought some 600 acres of military lands, which he lost in consequence
of a defective title.  Afterward he entered 400 acres in what is now Oldham
County, Ky., where still later he built and operated a distillery until 1830,
when he came to Gregg Township, Morgan Co., Ind., where he resided
until his death.  Young Eli received a very fair education at the rude log
schoolhouses of the Kentucky frontier, and learned the cooper's trade with
his father, which he followed for a number of years.  At the age of twenty-
seven he was married, soon after which he bought a farm in Oldham
County, Ky., and was engaged in agricultural pursuits in connection with
his trade until the fall of 1835, when he came with his family to Adams
Township, Morgan County, Ind., entered and bought 743 acres of wild
land, and improved a farm upon which he resided until his death, which 
occurred March 28, 1868, in his seventy-seventh year.  He was an
enrolling officer in Kentucky during the war of 1812, and Township
Trustee for one term after he came to Indiana.  Himself and wife were
members of the Christian Church.  In politics, he was identified with the
Democratic party, and was one of the pioneers of Morgan County.  Dan-
iel Pruitt, the subject, received a fair common school education, and was
employed on the home farm until he was twenty-one years old.  He then
went to Mooresville, where he remained one year, and learned the brick-
making and brick-mason's trades, which he followed in connection
with farming for some thrity-five years.  In 1846, his father deeded him
forty acres of wild land in Adams Township, Morgan Co., Ind., to which
he added, now owning a well-improved farm of 113 acres, upon which
he resides.  He was married, December 29, 1846, to Elizabeth Arnold,
a native of Harrison County, Ind., and a daughter of Richard and 
Lovina (Potts) Arnold, who were among the early settlers of Morgan
County.  To Mr. and Mrs. Pruitt have been born eleven children, ten
of whom, four sons and six daughters, are yet living.  Both himself and 
wife are members of the Christian Church.  In politics, he is a stanch
Democrat.

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