Biography of Isaac N. Askew, page 680.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Isaac N. Askew, was born in Richland (now Ashland) County, Ohio, Feb. 19, 
1824, the son of Isaac T. and Mary (Harvout) Askew, his father a native of 
Maryland, and his mother of Ohio, and a grandson of Colonel Jonathan Harvout, 
of Revolutionary fame.  He was reared in his native county on a farm, remaining 
there till 1847, when he came to Indiana and bought an unimproved tract in 
Allen County, residing there about six years.  He then sold his land and 
moved to De Kalb County, buying a farm east of Spencerville, on the St. Joe 
River, which he improved.  He subsequently sold this farm and bought one west 
of Spencerville, where he lived till April, 1874.  He then sold out and moved 
to Keyser Township, buying the farm where he has since resided.  He owns 
eighty acres of finely-cultivated land, and is surrounded with all that 
makes life pleasant.  For the past twenty years he has in connection with 
attending to his own farm assisted his neighbors during harvest, running a 
threshing-machine.  Mr. Askew was married Nov. 27, 1853, to Rebecca H. 
Squiers, daughter of William A. and Susanna Squiers.  They have had five 
children---W.T.M., born March 11, 1855; George W., born Sept. 16, 1858; 
Perry, born Dec. 16, 1860, died in infancy; Nettie, born Oct. 4, 1877 and 
Jennie born Aug. 29, 1871.  Mrs. Askew is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal church.  Politically, Mr. Askew affiliates with the Democratic 
party.

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