Biography of Samuel K. Firestone, page 615.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Samuel K. Firestone, section 23, Franklin Township, was born in Crawford 
County, Ohio, June 27, 1833, a son of George Firestone.  In 1837 his father 
moved the family to De Kalb County and settled in Franklin Township on a 
tract of heavily timbered land. Here he was reared, receiving his education 
on the farm and among the wild animals in the woods surrounding them, but 
attending school very little, a few weeks in the winter being all the time 
allotted for that purpose.  He became an expert with his gun, killing many 
deer and other animals native to the county,  He assisted his father till 
manhood, and when be began life for himself had very little money, but 
having a determined will and a strong arm he made up his mind to succeed  
and having put his hand to the plow he kept steadily on, and his efforts 
have ever been crowned with success, and prosperity is his reward.  When he 
commenced housekeeping he made the first bedstead of basswood poles, using 
the bark for a cord, and his wife painted it with poke-berry juice.  He now 
owns 220 acres of valuable land, which is well cultivated, and his residence 
and farm buildings are among the best in the township.  The first two years 
of his married life were spent in a log house in what is now Butler, occupied 
at present by Tim Otis.  He was married Aug. 6, 1853, to Caroline Nelson, 
daughter of James Nelson, who settled in De Kalb County in 1847.  The have 
had six children, five are living---George A., Hannah C., James E., Estelle, 
Maggie and Maude I.  Mrs. Firestone is a member f the Methodist Episcopal 
church.

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