"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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GEORGE FARMER is a farmer, a native of Guilford County, N.C., is the third
of ten children--four sons and six daughters--of JACOB and PENA (SHOFFNER)
FARMER, natives of North Carolina and of German descent, and was born April
11, 1821. His parents came to Morgan County in 1824, and after about eight
years' residence in Brown Township, removed to Hendricks County, where they
lived the remainder of their days, the father dying in September, 1861, in
the seventy-ninth year of his age, and the mother in August, 1865, in the
sixty-eighth year of her age. George was reared upon a farm, at the
subscription school learned something of reading, writing and arithmetic,
and lived with his parents until twenty-eight years of age, when, on
December 24, 1848, he married in Monroe Township, Morgan County, to LYDIA
ELLIOTT, daughter of ALFRED ELLIOTT, also a native of North Carolina, and by
this marriage he has had born to him eleven children, the first of whom died
in infancy not named. The others were JACOB (died at the age of seven
years), MARY, CAROLINE, ALFRED, WILLIAM, CATHARINE, JOHN, ALVARO (died),
GEORGE and LEONARD R. Both Mr. and Mrs. F. are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and Mr. F. is a member of the I. O. O. F. at Mooresville.
He removed from Guilford Township, Hendricks County to Brown Township,
Morgan County, in August, 1858, where he purchased and settled upon the
farm he has since owned and occupied. He was one of the incorporators of
the Mooresville "Monitor". He and his wife inherited from their respective
parents a small sum of money, and the rest of their possessions have been
acquired by their united industry. He owns at present a splendid farm of
200 acres, mostly in cultivation, well improved, stocked and equipped for
agricultural purposes. In politics, he is a Republican. He is an ardent
temperance man and an advocate of prohibition. He is a good, substantial
citizen, held in high esteem by his neighbors and those who come in contact
with him.
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