Biography of Levi W. Treesh, pages 751 / 752.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Levi W. Treesh was born Jan. 10, 1846, in Stark County, Ohio, and is the 
third son and ninth child of Michael Treesh.  When seven years of age he 
removed with his parents to De Kalb County, Ind., where he was reared on a 
farm, and educated in the district schools.  He remained at home till Sept, 
10, 1864, when he enlisted in Company A, One Hundred and Forty-second 
Indiana Infantry, and served in the armies of the Potomac and Cumberland 
till the close of the war, when he was  honorably discharged June 28, 1865, 
at Nashville, Tenn.  After the war he worked out during the summer and 
engaged in teaching vocal music during the winter seasons till 1872, when he 
settled on a part of his father’s farm, and has since followed agricultural 
pursuits.   He was married April 3, 1873, to Miss Margaret, daughter of 
Henry Ober, and to them have been born four children---Olive May, Chester 
Lloyd, Jesse Eugene, and Earl Leroy.  Mr. and Mrs. Treesh are members of he 
Lutheran church. Politically he is a Democrat.  He was elected Justice of 
the Peace in the spring of 1884.  He has been Superintendent of the Sabbath-
school for five years, and is President of the De Kalb County Sunday-School 
Association.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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