Biography of John Jacob Metzger, page 578.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

John Jacob Metzger, farmer and stock-raiser, is a native of Germany, born 
March 31, 1815, a son of Philip Powell and Margaretta (Gross) Metzger.  He 
was reared on a farm, remaining with his father till his majority.  His 
mother died when he was three years old.  When he was twenty-one years old 
he was drafted into the German army and served three years.  He then on 
account of his good behavior was allowed to purchase a substitute and was 
discharged.    He followed  farming five years after leaving the army, and 
was then married, and soon after came to the United States and settled in 
Lawrence County, Ohio, buying fifty acres of land, where he lived nine years.  
In 1855 he came to De Kalb County and bought 100 acres of wild land which he 
has cleared and improved, and now has one of the finest farms in the township.  
He was married in March 1846, to ________________, who died April 26, 1857, 
leaving six children---Kate, Henry, John, Elizabeth, George and Mary.  In 
October, 1857, he married Mrs. Barbara (Stomm) Miller, a native of Germany, 
who came to America in 1854.  She has four children---Margaretta, Jacob, 
Valentine and Henry.  Mr. and Mrs. Metzger are members of the Methodist 
Episcopal church.  In politics he is a Democrat.

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