Biography of Isaac Ditmars, pages 649 / 650.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Isaac Ditmars. son of John A. and Eliza Ditmars, was born in Wayne County, 
Ohio, Sept. 7, 1837. When he was sixteen years of age he came to De Kalb 
County with his parents and , with the exception of the time he was in the 
service of his country, remained with them till twenty-five years of age.  
He enlisted in September, 1861, in Company F, Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry, 
and participated in the battle of Fort Donelson and at Shiloh, Tenn., on the  
6th of April, 1862, where he was so seriously wounded as to necessitate his 
discharge from the service, and is now receiving a pension on account of his 
injuries.  He was married Oct. 30, 1862, to Martha A. George, a native of 
Ashland County, Ohio, born May 24, 1841, a daughter of John T. and Nancy 
George, who came to Indiana in 1844.  Mr. and Mrs. Ditmars commenced married 
life in Butler Township where he bought 108 acres of land, which by industry 
and frugality he has made into a good farm.  His residence is now on section 
7, Jackson Township, and is one of the best in the township.  He owns sixty-
nine acres in the home farm, all under good cultivation.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Ditmars have had four children, but three of whom are living---George M., 
Mary and Anna L.  Ulysses M.E., the eldest son, died Oct. 2, 1873, in his 
eleventh year.  He was a robust, healthy boy and in his love for adventure 
and out of door sports, had climbed a tree, when in some way he lost his 
footing and fell to the ground, receiving injuries which resulted in death 
in thirty minutes.  Mr. Ditmars is in politics a Republican, and is one of 
the representative men of the county,  Mrs. Ditmars’ father was born in 
Pennsylvania, Dec. 9, 1811, and is still living in Jackson Township, De 
Kalb County, Ind.  Her mother was born in Pennsylvania, July 17, 1812, and 
died at her home in Jackson Township, March 23, 1876.

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