Biography of George Putt, page 580.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

George Putt, one of the most prosperous and prominent of the early settlers 
of De Kalb County, was born in Berks County, Pa., Nov. 19, 1814, the eldest 
son of Jacob and Catharine (Shaffer) Putt, native of Pennsylvania, of 
English and German descent.  He was reared in his native State, and when 
fifteen years of age began driving a freight team over the mountains, a 
vocation he followed fifteen years.  About 1835 he settled in Lebanon 
County, Pa., and in 1841 moved to Stark County, Ohio, and eleven months 
later, in 1842, came to Indiana and entered forty acres of land, and bought 
forty more in De Kalb County.  It was located in the dense timber, but he 
went to work and soon had enough cleared to build a log cabin and raise a 
crop.  He has been successful and to his land has added forty acres till now 
he has 120 acres of choice land, all well improved. He was married Nov. 15, 
1835, to Sarah Ann, daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Polm) Getz, native 
of Pennsylvania, of German descent.  To them were born two children---Levi 
and Joanna Elizabeth Catharine, wife of John Anstett.  Mrs. Putt died Sept 
9, 1884.  She, as has also Mr. Putt, have been a member of the German 
Reform church from her youth.  Politically, Mr. Putt is a Democrat.

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