"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, MORGAN CO., IN.
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GEORGE E. BRONSON was born in Summit County, Ohio, January 25, 1823. He is
a deaf mute, in consequence of early inflammation of the drums of the ears.
He graduated at the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Columbus, Ohio, where he
remained five years, and later learned the printing trade in Cleveland;
but, becoming discouraged, he went to work for the Recorder of Lenawee
County, Mich.; moved thence to Detroit and was in the Auditor's office,
where he remained three months; then he went to Milwaukee and thence to
Iowa City, where he became a legislative clerk, and afterward worked in the
Recorder's office at St. Louis. He was later appointed Principal of the
Deaf and Dumb Institute at Nashville, Tenn., where he remained until the war
began, after which he purchased 200 acres of land, and made a trial of
farming. July 14, 1852, he married Lucy C. Blacknall, of Tennessee, the
result of which union was ten children--Josephine Alice, Charles Egbert,
Benjamin Franklin, Emma Dora, Abraham Lincoln, Fannie Lisslie, Clarence
Ashley, Silas Alling, Mildred Maggie and Ida Lucy. After the death of his
first wife, Mr. Bronson wedded, in Logansport, Ind., Annie Barnes; this
marriage took place May 5, 1874, and was followed by five children: Effie
Nellie, Cassie Mabel, Jessie Edna, Myrtle Maud and George Egbert, Jr. In
1868, he sold his Tennessee property and moved to Morgantown, Ind. His
father bequeathed him $15,000 and his uncle a like amount.
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