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GEORGE W. BOWNGEORGE W. BOWN, farmer and miller, P. O. Farmersburg, was born in Butler County, Ohio, July 10, 1831; son of Oliver W. and Sarah (Hyatt) Bown, natives respectively of New Jersey and New York. Our subject early learned the trade of carpenter, and came with his parents in 1853 to Vigo County, Ind., where subject engaged in contracting and building, erecting most of the schoolhouses, churches and many dwellings in Linton. He was also engaged in farming and has forty acres yet in Vigo, after dividing liberally with his children. In October, 1883, he settled in Curry Township and purchased thirty-seven acres and the Farmersburg Mill, a frame building 30x40 feet, three stories in height, propelled by steam and running two sets of buhrs, with a capacity of forty barrels per day. He is also dealing in live stock, doing a business of $40,000 per year. He was married in Vigo County, April 12, 1855, to Miss Henrietta Woodward, born in Warren County, Ohio, December 26, 1838; daughter of James and Caroline (Owens) Woodward, natives of Ohio. Three children were born to them--Aurelia and Gertrude, living, and Laura E., dead. Mr. Bown is a stanch Democrat and was before the convention in 1880 for County Clerk, and in 1882 for CountyCommissioner. He has a fine residence, large and commodious. Mr. Bown's father died in Vigo County December 7, 1882; his mother is still living in the seventy-first year of her age.CURRY TWP. PAGE 766 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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