Biography of Elihu McInturf, page 577.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Elihu McInturf, one of the prominent early settlers of De Kalb County, was 
born in Licking County, Ohio, June 17, 1816, a son of John and Hannah (Parr) 
McInturf.  When he was twelve years of age he went to live with an uncle, 
and remained with him till nineteen years of age, when his uncle died, 
leaving him enough to buy fifty acres of land.  He was sick for the next 
three years and needed the money, and upon his recovery was obliged to go to 
work for wages.  In 1840 he went to Clark County, Ill., but in less than a 
year returned home and remained till October, 1844, when he cane to Indiana, 
and bought eighty acres of Government land.  He worked for the settlers to 
obtain provisions to live on, and in the meantime began to clear his land 
and get it ready to plant a crop.  He has been industrious and frugal, and 
to his firs purchase has added till he now has a fine farm of 132 acres, 
all under cultivation. He was married in 1841 to Rachel Brown, a native of 
Knox County, Ohio, daughter of Silas and Sarah Ann (Merriott) Brown.  They 
had two children---Sarah Ann, wife of Abraham Orr, of Kendallville, and 
William M., who married Emma Bronson, and lives on the old homestead.  In 
politics Mr. McInturf is a Democrat.

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