Biography of John F. Casebeer, page 803.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

John F. Casebeer, section 21, Troy Township, was born in Tuscarawas County, 
Ohio, Sept. 11, 1839, a son of John Casebeer, who settled where our subject 
now lives in 1840.  He was reared a farmer, and received a good education in 
the district schools of his township.  He remained at home till after the 
breaking our of the war of the Rebellion, and in June, 1863, enlisted in 
Company E., Eighty-sixth Ohio Infantry, and was appointed Corporal, serving  
till discharged in February, 1864.  Since his return from the war he has 
engaged in agricultural pursuits, and now owns a fine farm of seventy-two 
acres, all well improved.  He was married in August, 1866, to Harriet Weitz, 
daughter of Adam Weitz, of Edgerton, Ohio. To them have been born six 
children---Lulu, Curtis, Frances, Howard, Daniel and Hattie.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Casebeer and their daughter Lulu are members of the Methodist Episcopal 
church.

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Auburn, Indiana
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