Biography of Forest A. Hixson, pages 754/755.  History of DeKalb 
County, Indiana; B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, 1914.



Forest A. Hixson

Among the men of influence in DeKalb county, who have the interest of 
their locality at heart and who have led consistent lives, thereby 
gaining definite success along their chosen lines, is Forest A. Hixson, 
a successful farmer of Butler township, having there a valuable and 
highly productive farm, which he manages with the care and discretion 
that stamps him as a twentieth-century agriculturist of the highest 
order. Forest A. Hixson was born February 19, 1877, and is the son of 
Bennett and Sarah E. (Knott) Hixson, both being natives of Ohio. The 
parents were born six children, namely: James O., deceased; Mabel M. 
was born November 9, 1874, and resides on a farm; the subject; Roy and 
Ray, twins are deceased; Tula V., who was born August 21, 1886, was 
married December 24, 1913, to Theodore Rhodes. The subject’s father, 
who was one of the earliest setters of DeKalb county, died on July 7, 
1897, and his widow now makes her home with her son, Forest A., on the 
home farm. Receiving a good common school education, the subject of 
this brief review engaged in farming and has made this his life work.  
He is at  present cultivating two hundred and forty acres of choice 
land in Butler township, which he owned jointly by the subject, his 
mother and two sisters. 	On January 12, 1900, occurred the 
marriage of the subject to Amanda Houser, daughter of Adam and 
Catherine (Bebber) Houser, both natives of Pennsylvania. To this union 
have been born three children: Ralph, deceased; Belva, who was born 
October 26, 1902 and Mary K. who was born June 29, 1907. The farm now 
occupied by Mr. Hixson is the old home place, it being called “the old 
James Reynolds farm.” James Reynolds, the subject’s greatgrandfather, 
having purchased it in 1858, and the farm has been continuously since 
in the possession of some members of the family.  A Democrat in his 
political faith, Mr. Hixson have given loyal support to the party, 
although never having been desirous of political honors, preferring to 
limit his activities along that line to casting his vote for the 
principles he thought right.



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Arlene Goodwin

Auburn, Indiana

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