Biography of Michael Boyer, page 558 / 559. History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Michael Boyer, Farmer and Stock-raiser, Fairfield Township, is one of the 
most prominent citizens of De Kalb County.  He is a native of Somerset 
County, Pa., born Aug . 29, 1804, a son of Benjamin and Christina (Duffman) 
Boyer, natives of Pennsylvania, of German descent.  He was reared on a farm 
in his native county, and was there married in 1829 to Christina Troutman, a 
native of Somerset County, a daughter of Peter and Barbara Ann (Stanler) 
Troutman, natives of Philadelphia.  After his marriage he settled on the 
Troutman homestead, where he lived ten years, and in 1839 moved to Holmes 
County, Ohio, and twelve years later, in 1851, moved to De Kalb County, Ind., 
and bought eighty acres of timber land in Fairfield Township, which he has 
cleared and made one of the finest farms in the township.  He is a successful 
agriculturist and has surrounded himself and family with all the comforts of 
life.  To him and his wife have been born four children---Solomon, of Noble 
County, Ind., Josiah, of this township; Maria, wife of George Henney, and 
Elizabeth, wife of Moses Deitz.  They are members of the Lutheran church.  
In politics he is a Democrat.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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