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

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 323

WILLIAM E. VARLEY (boots and shoes) was born July 4, 1855, in 
Richland County, Ohio, and is a son of Joseph and Lucy (Crawshaw)
Varley, both natives of England.  Joseph Varley received a very limited
education, but by his own exertions after he became a man, he became
well informed.  In about 1848 or 1849, he emigrated to the United States
on the Great Eastern, on her first trip.  His family afterward joined him.
He first settled in Utica, N. Y., where he worked in a brass foundry for
two years.  He then removed to Newcastle, Richland Co., Ohio, remain-
ing about two years, returning to Utica.  After a few years, he moved to
Mansfield, thence to Marion, remaining there until 1868.  He then removed
to Clay County, Ind., where he still resides, following his trade, that of
watch-making.  Mrs. Varley  died in 1873;  was a member of the Baptist
Church, of which Mr. Varley is a member also.  William E. Varley, our
subject, received a common school education.  At the age of eighteen, he
commenced to learn the trade of a shoe-maker, serving an apprenticeship
of two and a half years, after which he worked as a journeyman about
two years.  In the fall of 1877, he came to Eminence, Ind., and set up a
shop of his own, where he is doing a thriving business.  He held the office
of Postmaster at Eminence for one year;  was married November 1, 1883,
to Sarah J. Hazlette, a native of Morgan County, Ind.  Mr. Varley belongs
to a subordinate Lodge of the I. O. O. F., of which  he is P. G.

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