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 319

ELLISON SLIGER, cabinet-maker and undertaker, was born in Bullitt
County, Ky., October 11, 1822, and is the youngest of ten children born
to David and Margaret (Stafford) Sligar, both of whom were natives of
Pennsylvania, and of German and Scotch descent respectively.  David
Sligar was educated and married in his native State.  In about 1797, he
emigrated to Bullitt County, Ky., then an unbroken wilderness.  Himself
and wife, with several other families, came down the Ohio River in flat-
boats from Pittsburgh, landing at the present site of Louisville, Ky., which
then contained only a few log cabins.  He proceeded immediately to 
Bullitt County, where he entered 263 acres of land, which he was obliged
to pay for twice in consequence of a defective title.  Here he improved a
farm, upon which  he resided until his death, which occurred January 4, 
1832, in his seventy-fifth year.  Ellison Sligar, the subject of our sketch,
received such an education as could be obtained at the primitive log school-
houses of the Kentucky frontier.  After his father's death, he resided with
his brother Thomas until he was seventeen years old.  He then went to
learn the carpenter's and cabinet-maker's trades, serving an apprenticeship
of three years, and has followed one or both of these trades ever since.
In 1843, he removed to Gosport, Owen County, Ind., where he resided
two years;  thence to Adams Township, Morgan County, Ind., and settled
near the present site of Eminence, where he still resides.  He erected the 
first two buildings in the village of Eminence.  In 1851, he bought wild land
and has since improved the farm where he now lives, and for the last twenty-
five years has been engaged in agricultural pursuits in connection with his
trade.  He was for a time one of the Trustees of Adams Township under the
old constitution.  He was married March 25, 1844, to Margaret Gilliland, a
native of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Thomas and Margaret (Stogdal)
Gilliland, natives of Ireland, who emigrated to the United States in 1793.
They were lifelong members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  The former
died in 1825, in his sixty-sixth year, and the latter in 1869, in her one hund-
red and second year.  To our subject and wife have been born one daugh-
ter, viz., Sarah J., now Mrs. James H. Rhea.  Mr. and Mrs. Sligar are mem-
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He is also a member of Eminence
Lodge, No. 440, A., F. & A. M., of which lodge he has been Chaplain
for some ten years.  In politics, he is a Democrat.

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