Biography of Henry Whetsel, pages 1024. History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Henry Whetsel, one of the most influential farmers of Wilmington Township, 
was born in Wayne County, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1821, a son of Henry Whetsel, a 
native of Pennsylvania, and an early settler of Wayne County.  In 1830 his 
parents moved to Seneca County, Ohio, and there he was reared and educated.  
He attended the old-fashioned log-cabin schools, where the mode of 
instruction was as primitive as the style of the house.  In 1840 he came to 
De Kalb County, and worked five years for Wesley Park, a farmer near Auburn.  
He bought 160 acres of timber land on section 16, Wilmington Township, on 
which he afterward settled and which is now his finely cultivated farm.  Mr. 
Whetsel married Julia Waterman, and to them were born ten children, eight of 
whom are living.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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