Biography of Nathan Squiers, page 666.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Nathan Squiers, son of William A. and Susan (Wyatt) Squiers, was born in 
Richland County, Ohio, June 30, 1830.  He remained with his parents till 
manhood, assisting in the work on the farm and attending the district 
school.  Nov. 15, 1853, he was married to Anna S. Marshall, a native of 
Cornwall, England, born Jan. 17, 1826, a daughter of James and Anna S. 
(Prout) Marshall,  Her mother died when she was an infant, and her father 
soon after came to the United States and settled in Ohio, where he died in 
1860.  Mr. Squiers was married in East Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio, in 
1853, and immediately came to De Kalb County and bought the farm where he 
now lives on section 22, Jackson Township.  Aug. 9, 1862, Mr. Squiers 
enlisted in Company A, One Hundredth Indiana Infantry and participated in 
the siege of Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and Mission Ridge where he was wounded, 
and was in the hospital two months.  Joined his regiment  and was then with 
Sherman at Atlanta and on the march to the sea, and through the Carolinas 
to Washington where, in May, 1865, he was in the line at the grand review.  
He bore an honorable part in fifteen battles and many skirmishes, and was 
discharged June , 8 1865.  Mr. and Mrs. have had twelve children, ten of 
whom are living---James W., of Whitley County, Ind.; Samuel A., Sydney N., 
Fillmore A., Susan A., wife of Frank Dancer; John S., Wyatt M., Horace C., 
Orange V. and Daisy.  One child died in infancy and one aged two year and 
three months.

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