Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. 
Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
BAKER TOWNSHIP
PAGE 368

JOHN H. THOMAS was born in Spencer, Ind., December 13, 1840, and is the 
seventh of the thirteen children of Alvin and Jane (Christison) Thomas, natives of
Kentucky, and of Irish descent.  John H. Thomas was bred to the farming profession,
but received little education, inasmuch as his father died when he was eleven years old,
and his services were required to assist the family.  July 6, 1861, he enlisted in Company
D, Twenty-first Regiment Indiana Volunteers, in which he was engaged at Baton Rouge,
where he was wounded in the left thigh, and at the siege of Port Hudson.  In consequence
of his wound he was discharged June, 1864.  December 5, 1869, he married N. Frances,
daughter of James M. and Elizabeth Campbell, which union was followed by seven
children--Nettie, James Madison, Cynthia, Mary, Bessie, John A. and Jane.  Mr. Thomas
is the proprietor of 102 acres of good farming land, which is well stocked, cultivated and
improved, and containing a good dwelling house.  He is a strong Republican in political
faith, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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