Joseph F. Daugherty

JOSEPH F. DAUGHERTY.

Mr. Daugherty, one of the pioneer merchants of the county, was born in Ohio, in the year 1814. Came to Eagle Village, this county, in the year 1838, where he was engaged in selling goods for a term of years, in fact, as long as there was any village there, perhaps up to 1853, when Zionsville sprung up and the building of the railroad there, when he, with A. P. Nicholas, his former partner in the village, commenced business in Zionsville and were in business there several years, when he went to Kokomo, and there his wife, Mariah Daugherty, died, as good a woman as ever lived in Boone County. Her name was Mariah Campbell. They were married about the year 1836 or 1838. The following are their children’s names: Adelaide, William W., James, Francis and Joseph. James died in infancy at Eagle Village, in 1844. William W. has been for years in the regular army as captain, in the 18th Regulars, and is now at this writing (1886) at Fort Lewis, Colorado. Joseph is also there in that county as a farmer. Mr. Dickerson was, while living in the village, captain of the Eagle Village Light Infantry, a military organization formed there back in the forties. He was, it is said, the best posted man of his day in the county. Was nominated for the state legislature in 1848, but was defeated by the Hon. Henry M. Marvin. Mr. Dickerson is now, and has been for years, a resident of the city of Indianapolis; is in his seventy-fourth year, quite well preserved and looks younger than that. He was an old Whig up to 1826; since that time has acted with the Republican party. In person Mr. Dickerson is of medium size, dark hair, good features, well made, and in his best days would weigh 175 pounds. Mrs. Dickerson is buried at Kokomo. Should you visit her grave you might truthfully say: "Here rests one of the noblest women that ever lived in Boone County."

Transcribed by: Julie S. Townsend - June 9, 2007
Source: "Early Life and Times in Boone County, Indiana," Harden & Spahr, Lebanon, Ind., May, 1887, pp 271-272.