Biography of W.H.H. Cornell, pages 492 / 493. History De Kalb  County, Indiana, Inter-State Publishing Company, 
Chicago, 1885.

W.H.H. Cornell, son of William and Mary M. Cornell, was born in Maryland in 1840, and was ten years of age when
his parents moved to Indiana, and has helped to bring Butler Township to its present state of cultivated farms from 
a state of timber and wild land.  He now owns a good farm of forty acres, all well improved.  In 1861 he enlisted in 
Company K, Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry, and was soon sent to the front.  He participated in the battles of Shiloh 
and siege of Corinth, Perryville, Stone River, and others of less note.  He served three years, receiving a honorable 
discharge.  Mr. Cornell  was married in 1870 to Eliza Timberlain, daughter of Isaac Timberlain, and old settler of Butler
Township. They have two children ---Perry B. and Jesse O. In his political views Mr. Cornell adheres to the faith of
his father, and is a staunch Republican. He has served as Constable of his township a year and a half.  He and his 
wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

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