Biography of William H. Topper, page 1021.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

William H. Topper, section 36, Wilmington Township, was born in Bedford 
County, Pa., June 20, 1828, a son of George Topper.  He settled in Ashland, 
then Wayne County, Ohio, in 1845, and in 1857 moved to De Kalb County, Ind., 
and settled in Wilmington Township.  Mr. Topper was married in Ohio in 1847, 
to Phoebe Newman, daughter of Thomas Newman.  Their two children are both 
deceased.  Mrs. Topper died in 1849.  In April,1850, Mr. Topper married 
Tracy Easterday, a native of Wayne County, Ohio, born Sept. 30, 1831, a 
daughter of Michael Easterday.  Nine children have been born to them, eight 
of whom are living---Simon, Margaret A., Mary L. John H., Laura E., William 
A., Letitia and Rosa L.  Mr. and Mrs. Topper are members of the United 
Brethren church.  Mr. Topper’s first wife was the heir of one-seventh of 
$64,000,000 in England, and had she lived her right to it would have been 
proven with very little difficulty.

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Arlene Goodwin
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