"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 ROSSIER, a native of Canton Vaud, Switzerland, was born December 11,
1839, and came to America in the spring of 1862. He was well educated in
the French language, and before he was nineteen years of age had mastered
the trade of watch-maker. His parents, Jacques and Margaret (Tetaz)
Rossier, had five sons and five daughters, and of the ten children our
subject was next to the youngest, and the only one who ever came to America.
>From 1862 to 1867, Henry alternated between New York, Indianapolis and Terre
Haute, the first three years at his trade, and the last two in the grocery
business. January 20, 1865, he was married in Terre Haute to Emily Drotz,
who has borne him five children--William, Katie, Emil, Charles and Walter
(deceased). By persistent effort and the application of a naturally
superior mind, Mr. Rossier has possessed himself of a good English
education, and is at this writing (December, 1883) one of the Trustees of
the Mooresville High School. He was brought up in the Presbyterian faith,
but is now a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He belongs to the I.
O. O. F., A. F. & A. M. and K. of H. at Mooresville, where he has been
engaged in the jewelry business since the year 1867.
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