Biography of Paul Lung, pages 497 / 498.  History De Kalb County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, 
Chicago, 1885.

Paul Lung, retired farmer, is the oldest living resident of Butler Township.  He was born in Champaign County, Ohio, 
in December, 1810, a son of John and Susanna (Pence) Lung, natives of Shenandoah County, Va.  When he was 
about ten years of age his father died, and he was bound out to serve till he was twenty-one.  Having to toil early 
and later for a hard taskmaster, he had no educational advantages.  He was married Jan. 12, 1832.  In 1841 he came 
with his wife and four children to De Kalb County, Ind., and settled where he now lives in Butler Township.  He 
bought 160 acres of wild land, paying $4.33 and acre, on which he built a small cabin, and after getting his family 
settled, went to work to improve his land, which took years of patient toil.  He now has a pleasant home where he 
has lived forty-four years, and from a wilderness has seen the country develop into farms and villages.  He added to 
his first purchase till he owned 230 acres, but has reduced his farm to 150 acres.  He is purely a self-made man, and 
has made the greater part of his money in De Kalb County, having but about $200 when he first came to Indiana.  He 
was a natural mechanic, and worked at the carpenter’s trade a portion of the time after coming to the county.  Deer 
and other wild animals were plenty, and he was one of the best marksmen in the county.  He has always been a 
Democrat, casting his first vote for Andrew Jackson.  He has held the office of Supervisor several years, always 
discharging his duties in a conscientious and impartial manner.  His wife died Jun 20, 1884, aged seventy-three 
years, three months and thirteen days.  They had a family of seven children: but four are living---Serena, wife of O.C. 
Clark; Elizabeth, Henry A., and George W..  Barbara, wife of George Ott, Anna, wife of Peter Fair, and John are 
deceased.  Mr. Lung has been a member of the Lutheran church forty years.  His wife was a member from her girlhood.

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