"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 ELWOOD LAWRENCE was born in Grant County, Ind., June 19, 1847, and
was the eldest of eight children--four sons and four daughters--of WILLIAM
and PRISCILLA (WILLIAMS) LAWRENCE, natives respectively of North Carolina
and Indiana. When eighteen years of age, our subject accompanied his
parents to Morgan County, where he has since lived, and where his father
died in 1883, at the age of sixty-four years, and his mother eight years
before, at the age of fifty-one. Subject was educated at the public
schools, five terms of which he afterward taught in Morgan County. He
married DELPHINA HARVEY April 26, 1871, and has two children--IVALUE and
GERTRUDE. He is a birthright member of the Friends' Church, in which
society his mother was for fifteen years preceding her death a prominent
minister. Mr. L. is a prominent Odd Fellow, a Republican politically, and
an ardent temperance worker. In 1882, he rented out his farm, and engaged
in the lumber business at Mooresville, Martinsville and other points, and is
to-day one of the most extensive hard-wood lumber dealers in the county,
dealing extensively in walnut lumber. To give an idea of the present value
of walnut lumber, we will state that Mr. Lawrence has just shipped one car
load of five-eights walnut, of 14,230 feet, which brought him, loaded on car
at Mooresville, $825.35.
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