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

MORGAN COUNTY
ASHLAND TOWNSHIP
PAGE 340

LEVI B. WHITAKER, an enterprising farmer and stock-raiser of Ashland
Township, was born March 1, 1828, in the western part of this county, near
Owen, and is one of the eleven children born to Grafton and Margaret (Gregg)
Whitaker, Kentuckians, of English descent.  Grafton Whitaker came to this
county in 1826, and at his death owned 680 acres of land.  He was Colonel
of the militia in the county soon after his arrival.  He died July 19, 1862.  Levi
B. Whitaker grew to maturity on a farm, receiving a rudimentary education.
As the schools were poor, he studied at home by the light of the fire--they had
no lamps then. He remained with his father unti his twenty-fifth year, when his
father gave him 200 acres of land in the woods, and he began to make him a
home.  Mr. Whitaker now owns 540 acres in this county, pretty well-improved,
and made it by his industry.  On January 21, 1869, Mr. Whitaker was married
to Susan C. Robertson, a native of Owen County, Ind., and a daughter of
Thomas and Delilah (Asher) Robertson, natives of East Tennessee and Kentucky.,
and of Irish and English extraction.  Mr. Whitaker is a member of the Missionary
Baptist and his wife of the Presbyterian Church.  He is a Democrat, and was
elected Trustee of Ashland Township in the spring of 1874, holding the posi-
tion one term.  Mr. Whitaker is a liberal giver to all charitable institutions, and
by his kind and sympathetic nature has won for himself many friends.

Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn  

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