Biography of Adam Prosser, pages 662 / 663.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Adam Prosser, a son of William and Mary Prosser, was born in Ashland County, 
Ohio, Jan. 18, 1838, and was fifteen years of age when his parents came to De 
Kalb County.  He remained with his parents till twenty-four years of age and 
then enlisted, Aug. 6, 1862, in Company C., Eighty-eighth Indiana Infantry.  
He participated in the battle of Perryville, but the engagement at Stone 
River found him sick in the hospital.  He was again in the ranks at 
Chickamauga, and he was with Sherman at Atlanta and in all the subsequent 
engagements till July, when he was wounded in the right thigh, which ended 
his active service.  He then served on detached service till his discharge, 
July 15, 1865.  He is now receiving a pension on account of injuries received 
while in the service of his country.  After his return home he went West and 
was employed about ten years in the  building of railroads, the greater part 
of the time by the Kansas pacific.  July 14, 1876, he bought the farm which 
is now his home, on section 3, Jackson Township.  He was married Oct. 8, 
1882, to Barbara, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Stroh.  She was born in 
Union Township, De Kalb County, March 25, 1852.  Mr. and Mrs. Prosser have 
one child---Arlington, born May 21, 1884.

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