Biography of Alonzo Hemstreet, page 573.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Alonzo Hemstreet, deceased, was born in Ohio, Feb 6, 1840, a son of 
Jeremiah and Mariam (Smith) Hemstreet.  When he was a child his parents 
moved to De Kalb County, Ind., and settled in Smithfield Township, where he 
was reared and educated, attending the district schools.  He remained with 
his parents till his marriage, and then bought the farm in Fairfield 
Township where his family now lives, and where he died Feb. 22, 1870.  The 
farm contains eighty acres of valuable land, but when Mr. Hemstreet settled 
on it was some improved and heavily timbered.  He was and energetic, frugal 
man, and with the assistance of a most estimable wife, cleared and improved 
his land, and at his death left one of the best farms in the township.  He 
was married Dec. 5, 1865, to Julia Zwilling, a native of New York, daughter 
of Henry and Julia (Howald) Zwilling, who came form Germany and settled near 
Utica, N.Y., and subsequently moved to Holmes County, Ohio, and in 1848 to 
De Kalb County, and settled in Fairfield Township, and removed to Smithfield 
where the father died.  The mother is now living in Marshall County, Iowa, 
in the seventy-fourth year of her age.  To Mr. and Mrs. Hemstreet was born 
one son---Clark A., who lives on the old homestead with his mother.  Mr. 
Hemstreet in his political views was a Democrat.

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