"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
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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HENRY HOUSE, native of Prince William County, Va., and third of eight
children of JOHN and CATHARINE B. (BLESS) HOUSE, natives of Germany, was
born March 23, 1823. His parents came to America in the year 1800, and into
Morgan County in 1836, where they spent the remainder of their lives. Our
subject was reared upon a farm; remained with his parents till twenty-one
years of age, and at the neighborhood schools, both in Virginia and Indiana,
acquired a fair English education. His father died in 1874, at the age of
eighty-four years, and his mother two years earlier, at the age of
seventy-seven. On September 5, 1845, our subject was married, at
Mooresville, to ELIZABETH KING, a native of Indiana, who died September 28,
1848, leaving two children--SARAH JANE and HARRIET. Sarah Jane died at the
age of five years. On October 25, 1849, he married SARAH E. FULTZ, of
Tennessee, and by her had born to him eleven children--ANNA, VIRGINIA,
CHARLOTTE (deceased), NATHANIEL (deceased), DORA, DOUGLAS, JOHN, OTTO,
CATHARINE, GERTRUDE (deceased), and ETHEL. Mr. H. is a class leader in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, a Democrat in politics, and a temperance man
from principle. He is an industrious and successful farmer and
stock-grower, and his property accumulations are due solely to his own
industry. He owns 400 acres of fine land in Morgan County, to the
management of which he gives his personal attention. He is a lover of
learning, and a liberal supporter of churches and benevolent institutions
without reference to sect or creed.
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