"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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THOMAS A. RICHARDSON was born in Hendricks County, Ind., September 8, 1837.
His parents, JAMES and RACHEL (LITTLE) RICHARDSON, natives of Virginia, came
to Mooresville when Thomas A. was an infant, and here the father died in
1882, at the age of seventy-eight years. Up to fifteen years of age, our
subject lived in town, and the next five years he spent upon the farm. His
education was limited to such as could be had at the public schools, and
having learned the tinner's trade at Mooresville, he, in 1861, went to
Wabash, Ind., at which place and at Indianapolis he worked as tinsmith for
the next six years. October 5, 1865, he was married at Mooresville, to MISS
HAWK, daughter of DR. CHARLES HAWK, and has had born to him three
children--an infant (deceased) not named, GRACIE and FLORENCE. Mr.
Richardson is one of the Stewards of the Methodist Church; Treasurer of the
"Morgan" Lodge, No. 211, I. O. O. R., and "Guide" of "Vesty" Lodge, No. 997,
K. of H. In the spring of 1880, he was elected Trustee of Brown Township,
and re-elected thereto in the spring of 1882. In the fall of the year last
named, he was defeated in his candidacy for Clerk of the Circuit Court. In
politics, he is a Democrat, and has preferment in a township largely
Republican at once indicates his popularity and has fitness for the office
to which he has been twice called. In the spring of 1868, in partnership
with J. H. RUSIE, he embarked in the stove and tin business at Mooresvile,
and here he has since remained and has been successful. He is a self-made
man, and the result is an upright an honorable merchant, conscientious alike
in this dealings and his public trusts.
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