"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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REV. JOHN ANTHONY WARD was born in Rock Island County, Ill., December 25,
1839, and is the second son and fourth child born to Stephen and Adaline
(Baxter) Ward, natives respectively of North Carolina and Ohio, and of
English extraction. The family came into Indiana in 1846 and located in
Putnam County, where they resided several years, coming finally into Morgan
County in 1857. John Anthony was reared upon a farm, and educated at the
public schools two terms of which he afterward taught. On February 16,
1860, he was married in Morgan County to Sylvina Farmer, and on August 12,
1862, enrolled at Indianapolis in Company D, Seventieth Indiana Volunteer
Infantry, and served about three years. He was with this regiment in many
bloody engagements and escaped without injury. At Peach Tree Creek, Ga., he
contracted chronic dysentery, from which he has never fully recovered. He
has six children living--Laura L., Charles G., Luella Ann, Harry H., John
S., Walter R. and Francis Asbury (deceased). He united with the Methodist
Episcopal Church in 1858, and in the fall of 1865 was licensed local
preacher, and a year afterward entered the traveling connection. In 1868,
he was ordained Deacon, and in September, 1870, graduated in the theological
course of study, and was regularly ordained Elder at Bloomington, Ind. In
the fall of 1866, he was assigned to Francisco Circuit (Gibson County,
Ind.), and has since devoted his entire time to the service of the Master.
The Rev. Mr. Ward is a forcible and argumentative speaker. He has received
into church membership not less than 1,200 persons. He took charge of the
Methodist Episcopal congregation at Mooresville in 1881, and is at this time
upon the last year of the maximum limit according to the rules of the
church. He is purely a self-made man; belongs to the Masonic order, and
ignores politics.
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