Biography of Ervin A. Crain, pages 611 / 612.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Ervin A. Crain, farmer and stock-raiser, section 11, Franklin Township, is 
the youngest of six children of Ervin J. and Nancy (Gaylord) Crain, and a 
grandson of Charles Crain and Eleazer Gaylord.  Charles Crain was a native 
of Middlebury, Vt.  He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and after his 
return home, in 1816, emigrated to Chautauqua County, N.Y., and thence in 
1834, to Painesville, Ohio, and to De Kalb County, Ind., in 1836, settling 
on section 8, Franklin Township, where he died in March , 1866.  Ervin J. 
Crain was born in Middlebury, Vt., Jan 29, 1815, and remained with his father 
till manhood, coming with him to De Kalb County, He was married to Nancy 
Gaylord April 5, 1840, and to them were born six children, four of whom are 
living---Melissa L., Leander T., Horace Greeley and Ervin A.  A daughter, 
Phidelia J., died at the age of thirty-two years.  She was the wife of B.C. 
Lemon, and left two children, Lucinda and Luther K.  A son, Luther K., went 
West when eighteen years of age, and was employed in the mail service, and 
subsequently by Powell & Newbern, freighter across the plains.  He has not 
been heard from for sixteen years, his family being unable to find a trace 
of him.  Ervin J. Crain was killed by a pet bull Oct. 28, 1874.  Ervin A. 
Crain was born in Franklin Township on the old homestead Dec. 6, 1852.  He 
received a good education, completing it at the Hamilton select school.  He 
was married April 5, 1872, to Delana Dirrim, a native of Franklin Township, 
born Jan. 10, 1852, a daughter  of James Dirrim.  They have three children---
Eva, Luther J., and Delana.  Mr. Crain owns eighty-eight acres of valuable 
land, all well improved, and is making a specialty of stock-raising.

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