Biography of Joseph Kirkpatrick, pages 736 / 737.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Joseph Kirkpatrick, farmer, section 7, Richland Township, was born in Perry 
County, Pa., March 18, 1830, a son of Joseph and Matilda (Murphy) 
Kirkpatrick, natives of Pennsylvania, of Irish descent.  When he was 
eighteen months old his parents moved to Richland County, Ohio.  When he was 
thirteen years old his father died.  He remained with and assisted his 
mother on the farm till he was eighteen years of age, and then went to learn 
the blacksmith’s trade, but on account of his health was obliged to abandon 
it after working a year, and then learned the carpenter’s trade at which he 
worked and was successful till 1857, when he moved to De Kalb County, Ind., 
and settled on land he purchased in 1853.  His original purchase was 160 
acres.  This he cleared and improved, and in 1872 bought eighty acres 
adjoining, and now has one of the best farms in the township.  Mr. 
Kirkpatrick was married Sept. 16, 1855, to Elizabeth Marks, a native of 
Richland County, Ohio, they have had eight children---Francis M. (deceased), 
John R., George W., Matilda M. (deceased), William H. (deceased), Charles 
L., Joseph E. and Sarah A.  Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick are members of the 
Protestant Methodist church.  Politically he is a Democrat.

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Arlene Goodwin
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