Pence - John
Source: Atlas of Montgomery
County, Indiana 1878 Chicago: JH Beers, p 289
PENCE, John B., Capt.,
superintendent gas company, Crawfordsville, was born. in Frankfort, Clinton Co, IN
Aug 29, 1833. His father was a farmer and he worked on the farm in the summer
to make money to pay his way to school during the winter. He attended Hanover
College two terms and Asbury Univ about one year. At the age of 21 he began
clerking in the drygoods store of PS Kelley in Frankfort. He continued with him
about one year and a half and then went into the dry goods business for
himself, and thus continued till the outbreak of the war. In the fall of 1861
he recruited Co. E, for the 40th Ind reg. of which company he was made captain.
He remained in the army about one year and then resigned on account of ill
health. The principal engagement that he was in was the siege of Corinth. After
the war he began in the drug business in Frankfort and continued until 1874
when he settled in Crawfordsville, and has ever since been superintendent of
the gas company. Mr. P. has traveled considerably in the different parts of the
US. in politics he is an ardent republican. He was married September 16, 1856
to Sallie E. KELLEY, daughter of PS Kelley, his old employer. Mr. and Mrs.
Pence are both members of the Center Presbyterian Church of this city. Transcribed
by kbz