"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
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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JARVIS J. HILTON, a native of Indiana, was born September 21, 1855, in
Morgantown, Morgan County. He was the second son and fourth child of Emsley
C. and Sarah A. (Jones) Hilton, natives of Indiana and Kentucky
respectively. His parents were married in Johnson County, Ind., where they
remained for some time, removing thence to Morgan County, where his father
followed cabinet-making and carpentering until his death, which occurred
October 5, 1877. The mother at present resides in Morgantown. In April,
1869, Jarvis J. Hilton was employed as clerk in a general merchandise store,
where he remained for three years. He then went into the employ of the
National Publishing Company for a short time, after which he was in
Franklin, Ind., for some time. Returning to Morgantown, he clerked for
Samuel Rozengarten, a merchant in that place,until in the fall of 1877;
afterward for another merchant in the town until December, 1878. Meanwhile
he had been reading law, and in November, 1877, was admitted to the bar in
Morgan County. He is at present extensively engaged in the practice of law
and pension business in Martinsville. In 1881, he was appointed Deputy
Prosecuting Attorney and served creditably for about two years. In April,
1877, he was married to Ida M. Skinner, daughter of George W. Skinner, a
pioneer of Morgan County. By this union there was one child--Fred H.,
November 19, 1879. His wife dying, he was next married, May 6, 1880, to
Flora B. Pervis, daughter of George C. pervis, a citizen of Johnson County.
Mr. Hilton is a member of the I. O. O. F., and is at present Prelate of the
K. of P., Anniversary Lodge, No. 89.
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