"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
PAGE 256
JOHN F. MAXWELL, liveryman at Morgantown, is a native of Butler County,
Ohio; was born August 14, 1849, and is the third of the seven children of
John K. and Ellen (McElwain) Maxwell, the former a native of Pennsylvania,
the latter of New Jersey, who moved to Johnson County, Ind., in 1860. John
F. Maxwell began the way of life for himself, when seventeen years of age,
by taking charge of a woolen factory at Eminence, Ind., having formerly
worked in such a place. This he continued for eighteen months, when he
moved to Brownsburg and had change of the weaving department for about three
years; thence he went to Crawfordsville, and there had charge of a woolen
factory for about six years, and finally came to Morgantown and began his
present enterprise--livery and stave-making. In 1883, he shipped about
3,500,000 staves. Mr. Maxwell has been twice married--first, to Miss Mary
J. Gibson, who died after bearing two children--both of whom departed before
getting names.; second, to Miss Minerva J. Juilan, who is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Maxwell is an energetic business man, an
esteemed citizen and an active Democrat.
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