Biography of Samuel Wasson, pages 548 / 549.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Samuel Wasson, one of the first settler, and the first of those now living, 
of De Kalb County, was born in Funkstown, Pa., July 9, 1809, a son of David 
and Flora (Graham) Wasson, natives of Ireland.  When he was a child his 
parents moved to Montgomery County, Ohio, and later to Darke County, where 
he grew to manhood.  After attaining his majority, in 1830, he went down the 
Mississinnewa River and worked for the Indians from spring till fall; then 
returned to Darke County, and in the spring of 1832 went to Ft. Wayne and 
worked on the canal, and in the fall of 1833 came to De Kalb County in 
company with six or seven families and worked for the settlers till 1837, 
when he entered eighty acres of land in Concord Township, which he cleared 
and improved, and on which he has lived nearly a half century.  He has been 
a hard working man and  has probably assisted in building more log cabins 
and houses than any other man in the county.  He has cut and split 2,000 
rails in seven days.  He has lived to see De Kalb County change from a 
country of Indians and wild animals to one of cultivated farms and 
prosperous villages, and no one had done more to bring about this change 
than he.  Although seventy-six years old he still retains considerable of 
his youthful vigor and oversees the cultivation of his farm.  He was 
married Jan. 16, 1840, to Eliza Means, who came to De Kalb County in 
1837.  To them have been born twelve children, ten of whom are living---
Sarah, Elizabeth, Lewis, David, Benjamin F., Nancy, Jane, Matilda, Milton 
and Ann.  James and John are deceased.  In his youthful days Mr. Wasson 
was a Whig in politics, but since its organization has cast his suffrage 
with the Republican party.

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