Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. 1884, Charles Blanchard, F. A.
Battey & Co., Publishers

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE
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QUINCY A. BLANKENSHIP, attorney at law, is a native of this county, born November 15, 1851.  He was reared in the locality of his birth, attended the schools and high school of Martinsville, also the Northwestern at Indianapolis.  He began farming in 1874;  now owns 200 acres in Ray Township, and is a partner with his brother in farming and stock-dealing;  they handle about 100 head of cattle each year. In 1879, he went into the County Clerk's office as Deputy, at which he served four years. Afterward he began the study of law, was admitted to practice February, 1883, and April 17 of that year he married Miss Fannie Miller.  The father of our subject, Perry M. Blankenship, was born in Jenning County, Ind., December 11, 1811.  His parents died when he was quite young, and he was bound to Mr. John B. New, and learned the trade of cabinet-making, at which he worked several years, and while yet a young man removed to this county.

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