Biography of David Oberlin, page 630.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

David Oberlin, farmer and stock-raiser, section 18, Franklin Township, was 
born in Stark County, Ohio, April 5, 1818.  His father, Frederick Oberlin, 
was a pioneer of Stark County, moving here from his native State, 
Pennsylvania, prior to the war of 1812.  He was reared on a frontier farm, 
and after reaching manhood left his native county, then a thickly populated 
and prosperous country, and started for the West, to again put in practice 
the lessons learned in his youth.  In October, 1847, he arrived in De Kalb 
County, Ind., and entered a tract of government land in Franklin Township, 
at that time heavily timbered.  He went bravely to work and by spring had 
enough land cleared to plant a crop, and in due time by his own labor had 
cleared sixty acres.  In 1870 he moved to the farm where he owns 106 acres 
of valuable land.  Mr. Oberlin was married March 10, 1841, to Mary Van Horn, 
daughter of David Van Horn.  They have four children---Susan, Mary M., 
Elizabeth and Josephine.  Susan married Baless Boyer, of Smithfield 
Township, and has four children---Warren, Allen, Minnie and Franklin.  
Mary married Charles Kelly, of Union Township, and has three children---
Alta, Gertrude and Clyde.  Elizabeth married Daniel Lockmire, of Franklin, 
and has one child---Bertha May.  Mr. and Mrs. Oberlin are members of the 
Lutheran church.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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