"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
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DAVID S. DODSON, blacksmith and wagon-maker at Mahalasville, is a native of
Hardin County, Ky.; was born August 2, 1834, and is a son of John B. and
Catharine (Ament) Dodson, the former a native of Kentucky, the latter of
Holland, and of English and German extraction respectively. The subject of
this sketch received a good common school education; was reared a farmer,
and remained with his parents until his twenty-fifth year, at which age he
commenced learning his trade, which he has since almost constantly followed,
besides having served nearly four years in the regular army. In the fall of
1862, he began business for himself at this present location. The spring of
1868, he married Miss Sarah E. Helton, a native of Morgan County, Ind., who
died after having borne one child--Judiah K. (deceased). Mrs. Dodson was a
member of the M. P. Church. Mr. Dodson is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, the I. O. O. F. and the United Order of Honor. He is an
enthusiastic Democrat, by which party he was elected Justice of the Peace in
1878, and again in the spring of 1882.
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