Biography of Joseph C. Prosser, page 663.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Joseph C. Prosser, son of William and Mary Prosser, was born in Ashland 
County, Ohio, April 25, 1841, and was twelve years of age when his parents 
moved to De Kalb County.  He remained at home till Aug. 15, 1862, and then 
enlisted in Company A, One Hundredth Indiana Infantry.  His first engagement 
was at Holly Springs, Miss., in the fall of 1862.  Subsequently he participated 
in the siege of Vicksburg, battle of Mission Ridge, and all the battles of his 
regiment in the campaign with Sherman to Atlanta and the sea, and thence to 
Washington, D.C., where he participated in the grand review of the army May 
22, 1865.  June 8, 1865, he was discharged and returned home, where he has 
since been as faithful to the duties of a citizen as he was to those of a 
soldier.  He participated in eighteen battles and many skirmishes.  Mr. 
Prosser was married April 24, 1879, to Louisa Baltz, a native of Franklin 
County, Pa., born Oct. 15, 1853, a daughter of Jacob and Barbara Baltz, 
natives of Germany, coming to the United States before their marriage, 
locating in Pennsylvania, and later in Indiana.  Her mother died in 
November, 1877.


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