Biography of Leander T. Crain, page 612.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Leander T. Crain, section 1, Franklin Township, is a native of this township, 
born May 29, 1845, a son of Ervin J., a native of Vermont, and an early 
settler of De Kalb County.  He was reared on a farm, and received a common-
school education, remaining with his parents till the breaking out of the 
Rebellion.  In 1863 he enlisted in company A, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth 
Indiana Infantry, and participated in the battles of Resaca, Buzzard’s Roost, 
Rocky Face, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta campaign, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville, 
Fort Anderson, Fort Fisher, Wise’s Forks, and others.  Since his return he has 
devoted his attention to agriculture and now has a good farm, well improve.  
In 1870 he went to the Rocky Mountains, visiting Montana, Idaho and Washington 
Territory, but spent most of his time in Montana.  He visited the Geysers of 
Yellow Stone Valley, and there saw the Devil’s Mush Pot, a large oval depression 
in the ground about eight or ten feet deep, at the bottom of which is quantity 
of boiling sulphur; also visited the hot springs, and saw parties catching fish 
in Gardner’s River, and without removing the fish from the line or changing 
their seats, swing them into the boiling water and cook them.  He returned 
to De Kalb County in December 1875.  March 22, 1876, he married Mary A. Fee, 
a native of Steuben County, Ind., born May 10, 1848, daughter of John Fee, 
a pioneer of Steuben County.  They have had three children---Charles 
(deceased), Ervin J. and James.  Mr. Crain is a member of the Odd Fellows’ 
order and the Grand Army of the Republic.

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