Identifier: historyofrandolp00tuck (find matches)
Title: History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Tucker, Ebenezer
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Publisher: Chicago : A.L. Klingman
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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, and his father has since been twice married; his first schooling was ob-tained in the old log cabin, with slab benches without backs for seats, and theslanting board from the wall for a writing desk, while his teachers made pensof quills for him and the other scholars. Lib SUvrk, his first teacher, hadher bed in the schoolhouse, and cooked her meals on the school stove. At theage of nineteen years, Joel left home to begin the battle of life for himself, andentered the employ of John Clayton, working for him by the month. He hadqualified himself by hard study, and iu the fall of the same year in which heleft home, procured a license to leiicli school. Since that time, he has been en-gaged alternately in teaching school during the winter and attending school andworking at the carpenters trade during the summer, excepting about threeyears of this time, during which he was engaged in mercantile pursuits. He hasbeen a student at the Farmland Graded Schools, the Ridgeville College and the
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i1#^ ::^>:gS!^asi\^£M^ii^^^ F^es(DE)ncesofLevi Hill,/kjmd 3a;mfof(d Woodbuf^y(Sojm In L/^vn/) GRflEr^S FORK TP. P^A;^!DOLPH 00.1^0- GREENSFORK TOWNSHIP. Pen Art Schools at Delaware, Ohio, and has a diploma for plain and ornamentalwriting, awarded by the latter institution. Ho has taught school in the town-ships of Monroe, Franklin, Washington, Greene and White River, and is recog-nized as one of the most proficient and successful teachers. On the 25th of De-cember, 1876, he was married to Miss Marietta Wright, daughter of Amos andDelliah Wright. This union is blessed with two children, viz., Carlton 0., bnrnNovember 19, 1870 ; I.yra Myrde. born August 8,1881. In politics, Mr. Will-iams is a Republican, and both himself and wife are members of Ibe Society ofFriends. He has prepared a genealogical record of the families of both hisparents, and for the past ten years has kept a diary of passing events ; hehas also written some poetical effusions, which be expects to publish. Mrs.Will

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