Biography of Samuel S. Haynes, page 733.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Samuel S. Haynes, farmer, section 20, Richland Township, was born in Portage 
(now Summit) County, Ohio, Aug. 1, 1813, a son of Benjamin and Christiana 
Haynes, his father a native of Maryland and his mother of Virginia.  He was 
reared and educated in his native county, of which his parents were early 
settlers.  In May, 1841, he moved to Indiana and purchased forty acres of 
heavily timbered land north of Auburn, and began making a frontier farm.  He 
cleared the land which is now the public square of Auburn.  In 1844 he sold 
out and bought eighty acres in Richland township, and the second time 
settled in the woods and cleared a farm in De Kalb County.  He has made this 
last purchase his home, and now has one of the finest farms in the township.  
Mr. Haynes was married Feb. 22, 1837, to Marian Meed, a native of Vermont, 
who came with her parents, Julius and Marian (Bain) Meed, to Ohio when she 
was sixteen years of age.  Mr. and Mrs. Haynes have had ten children---Julia 
L., George B., Charles S., Lorenzo D., Egbert M., Tryphena C., Freeman E. 
(deceased), Perry F., Alfred G. and Chloe K.  Politically Mr. Haynes is a 
Republican.  He and his wife are member of the German Baptist church.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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