Biography of Charles A. Dohner, page 167.  History of Northeast Indiana; 
LaGrange, Steuben, Noble, and DeKalb Counties, Vol. II, under the editorial 
supervision of Ira Ford, Orville Stevens, William H. McEwen, and William H. 
McIntosh.  The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1920.  

   Charles A. Dohner is not a farmer but regarded as one of the livest 
business men of Troy Township, DeKalb County.  He owns 120 acres, all of 
which he has acquired and made as a result of years of hard work and saving 
and careful co-operation between himself and his wife.  He is also a 
stockholder in the Arctic Co-operative Livestock Shipping Association and is 
one of the directors of the Butler Grain Shipping Association.
   Mr. Dohner was born in St. Joe Township of Williams County, Ohio, August 
20, 1876, a son of Isaac and Rachel (Adams) Dohner.  Isaac Dohner was born 
in Wayne County, Ohio, December 31,1838, and died in a hospital at Detroit, 
Michigan, July 7, 1911.  He came to DeKalb County in 1859.  On November 28, 
1860, he married Susan Bratten, of Williams County, Ohio.  He left home and 
on March 28, 1864, enlisted in Company H of the Eighty-Eighth Indiana 
Infantry and was in active service until wounded at Bentonville, North 
Carolina, in one of the last battles of the war, on March 19, 1865.  While 
he was in the army his wife died, leaving one child, Clara, wife of Adolph 
Vogal., a resident of Chicago.  On November 1, 1866, Isaac Dohner married 
Rachel A. (Adams) Johnston, of Wayne County, Ohio, widow of Cyrus Johnston, 
who was also a Union soldier and died while in the war.  Mrs. Johnston by 
her first marriage had one son, Robert, now deceased.  Isaac Dohner and 
wife were the parents of seven children: William H.; May, wife of Charles 
Jennings; Etta, wife of William Wilson; Ella, wife of Jacob Cole; Mary, 
wife of Floyd Hollinger; Charles A, and John, of Williams County.  The parents were 
members of the United Brethren Church at Big Run.  Mrs. Isaac Dohner is 
still living at Butler.  Her husband was an active member of the Grand 
Army Post at Butler and a republican in politics.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
Agoodwin@ctlnet.com