Biography of Samuel Kepler, page 625.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Samuel Kepler, deceased, was born in Stark County, Ohio. Oct. 30, 1814, a 
son of John Kepler.  He came to De Kalb County, Ind., in the fall of 1837, 
and settled on section 21, Franklin Township, entering land on sections 21 
and 28. He was a hard-working man and a successful  farmer and stock-raiser.  
In 1845 he built a large frame barn across the street from his residence on 
section 28, which is still standing, and across the gable end bears the 
inscription “S.K. 1845.”  About 1853 he built the first grist-mill in the 
township, on Fish Creek, section 2, which is still doing good work.  At his 
death he owned 1,600 acres of land, all earned by his own industry, assisted 
by his estimable wife.  He gave employment to many, and thus assisted in 
building up and advancing the interests of the county.  The season he built 
his barn, in 1845, he killed fourteen hogs and two beeves, all used by his 
hired help and family.  He owned a store in Hamilton, Ind., a year and then 
moved it to his place in De Kalb County and sold it three years later.  He 
was married in 1834 to Mary Noragon, a native of Pennsylvania.  Six of 
their fourteen children are living---Andrew, John, Samuel, Jane, Solomon 
and Jacob.  One son, Edwin, died in his nineteenth year, and a daughter, 
Caroline, aged twenty-six years.  Mr. Kepler died March 19, 1862.  His 
widow afterward married Elisha Beard, and early settler of this county.

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