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Welcome To Sullivan County, Indiana
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RICHARD A. BLANDRICHARD A. BLAND was born and reared a farmer's boy. His native State was Kentucky, where he was born January 6, 1815, and was educated in Jennings County, Ind, where his parents moved in about 1823. When of age, he engaged in cabinet making at Carlisle, Sullivan County, and two years afterwrd opened a shop of his own at New Lebanon, which he conducted until 1845, when he located in Sullivan, but the following year returned to New Lebanon, and about a year later began building flatboats, for which there was great demand. Three years later he engaged in saw-milling, and in 1855, bought a farm of ninety-one acres three miles from New Lebanon. After occupying this three years, he sold out and bought another of 110 acres east of New Lebanon, upon which he lived and labored until 1877, when he moved to the county seat, and is now retired. In 1835, he married Eusebia Mason, who died April 5, 1875, leaving four children--Nancy, William H., Thomas F. and Samantha. The deceased are James M., Marion, Sarah M., Richard A. and Justus D. December 19, 1877, he married his present wife, Mrs. Millie A. Allen. His four children are pleasantly located near him. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1837; is a Republican. His parents were Moses and Nancy (Boze) Bland, natives of Virginia.HAMILTON TWP. PAGE 717 FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC. ILLUSTRATED. 1884, CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. |
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