Identifier: historyofclinton00chic (find matches)
Title: History of Clinton County, Indiana. Together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens. Also a condensed history of Indiana, embodying accounts of prehistoric races, Indian wars, and a brief review of its civil and political history
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Clinton County (Ind.) -- History Clinton County (Ind.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago : Inter-state Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. In 1862 Mr.Claybaugh recruited the One Hundred and First Pennsylvania Regi-ment. The same year he returned to Frankfort, and resinned thepractice of his profession, whicli he has since followed, atid is oneof the leading lawyers of the county. In polities Mr. Oiaybaughis a Republican. He is a member of Clinton Lidge, No. oi, A.F. & A. M., and is a Knight of Hjnor, belonging to FidelityLodge, JMo. 60. Both Mr. and Mrs. Claybaugh are members ofthe Presbyterian church. Hon. Perry W. Gard was born in Switzerland CountyIndiana, November 30, 1833. His parents were Jesse Gardand Amanda (McHenry) Gard; he was the eldest of a familyof ten children. He came with his parents to Clinton Countyin the spring of 1849. His boyhood, like that of most farm-ers boys, was spent in going to school in the winter and doingall kinds of farm work in the summer. In the spring of 1851he was employed as a clerk in a country store, at Middle Fork,by John Evans, who had taken a contract to build a plank road
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LEGAL. 423 over the old Michigan road from Deer Creek to Michigan-town. He was married on the 10th of December, 1854, toCynthia A. Cromwell, of Carroll County. Shortly afterward inconnection with Jacob C. Rodkey he purchased the stock of goodsof Mr. Evans and carried on the business together for a time; thenhe purchased his partners interest and for awhile conducted thebusiness alone when his brother, now Dr. Oliver Gard, came homefrom the army. They then formed a partnership, carrying on themercantile trade and buying grain for several years. Theirbusiness was very extensive, commanding the trade for miles inevery direction; long trains of wagons loaded with wheat left theirwarehouse daily for Logansport or Fairfield, a town on what wasthen known as the I., P. & C. Railroad. The labor involved inhandling such large amounts of merchandise and grain was im-mense, and persons who have done business all their lives on theline of a railroad, with all of its modern facilities and conve

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