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Author: B. F. Bowen (1904)

THOMAS N. FLOYD.

   Prominent among the large land owners and successful agriculturists of Brown
county is the enterprising and public-spirited gentleman whose life history is
briefly outlined in this review. His career has been one of consecutive and
well-directed application and he has never lacked the enthusiasm that will not
countenance discouragement or admit defeat. Today he is numbered among the
popular citizens and representative business men of the community in which he
resides and, being a native of Brown county and having always lived in the same,
his acquaintance is wide, and wherever known his name is respected and honored.
Thomas N. Floyd is the sixth of a family of ten children, whose parents were
James and Louisa (Anderson) Floyd, and, as already stated, he is a native of
Brown county, Indiana, where his birth occurred April 18, 1847. The following
are the names of his brothers and sisters: Jane, Delila, John, William J.,
Milton, Eda, Naomi, Ellen and one that died in infancy.

   The father of these children was a native of Kentucky, but when a young man
he came to Indiana and located at Taylorsville, Bartholomew county, where he
subsequently married Miss Louisa Anderson, who was born in Belmont county, Ohio.
Soon -after they moved to Brown county and, after renting a time, purchased a
large tract of timbered land three and a half miles east of Nashville, cleared
and developed a fine farm and in due time became one of the leading
agriculturists in that part of the country, also one of the county's most
enterprising and highly esteemed citizens, though he died when Thomas N. was
seven years old. The widow is still living in Shelby county, Illinois.

   Thomas N. Floyd was reared on the home place and of winter seasons attended
the district schools until completing the usual course of study, devoting the
spring, summer and autumn months to the different kinds of farm work. He
remained with his mother until after attaining his majority, and at the age of
twenty-five entered the marriage relation with Miss Rachel Coulson, of Brown
county, the ceremony being duly solemnized September 7, 1872.

   Immediately after his marriage Mr. Floyd engaged in farming upon quite an
extensive scale in Washington township, and has continued the same with a large
measure of success ever since, being at this time one of the prominent
agriculturists and stock raisers of the county, owning about five hundred acres
of valuable land, the greater part of which is in cultivation and otherwise
improved. Enterprising, and progressive in all the terms apply, Mr. Floyd has
succeeded admirably not only as a tiller of the soil, but in other undertakings,
one of them being a general mercantile establishment at the village of Storey,
with which he has been identified for a number of years.

   Though living in Washington township all his life. Mr. Floyd has owned
several farms, in fact a feature of his business is in buying and selling, after
making improvements that will make it desirable to others. His present farm of
nearly three hundred acres, at the junction of Salt and Schooner creeks, seven
miles southwest of Nashville, and which he has owned for two years, contains
about one hundred and fifty acres of fine bottom land, but which had been run
down. He set to work to build it up and in doing so has erected a neat and
convenient residence, making one of the most desirable country homes in the county.

   While primarily interested in his own affairs and ever making every other
consideration subordinate thereto, Mr. Floyd has been mindful of his duties as a
citizen to the extent of taking an active part in public matters, thus becoming
an influential factor in the political and official circles of the county,
though never an office-seeker nor an aspirant for leadership. For a number of
years he has been a zealous supporter of the Democratic party, and it was in
recognition of his valuable services to the same, as well as by reason of his
peculiar fitness for the position that he was elected, in November, 1900, to the
responsible office of county commissioner. He served two terms in that capacity
to the satisfaction of the public, having been chosen his own successor, made an
honorable record as a painstaking official, with the interests of the people
ever at heart, and through his instrumentality much important business was
transacted and a number of needed internal improvements inaugurated and pushed
to completion.

   When the great Civil war broke out Mr. Floyd responded to the President's
call for volunteers by enlisting in Company K, One Hundred and Forty-fifth
Infantry, with which he served a little over one year. He accompanied his
command to the front, experienced the usual vicissitudes and hardships of
military service and at the expiration of his period of enlistment was honorably
discharged, his record being that of a brave and gallant soldier, who never
shirked a responsibility and who was ever ready to go where duty called.

   Mr. and Mrs. Floyd are the parents of eight children, all but one living, the
names of the survivors being Milton, Mary. Joseph, John L., Hershal and Arty.
Mr. Floyd and wife are highly respected by a large circle of warm personal
friends, and their popularity is bounded only by the limits of their
acquaintance. They have reared their children in the way they should go and have
the satisfaction of knowing that those doing for themselves are well provided
for and amply able to care for themselves, all being useful members of the
respective communities in which they live and greatly esteemed by their
neighbors and friends. In closing this review it may be well to state that the
Floyds are among the oldest and best people of Brown county, and there are few
families with as honorable a record. Mr. Floyd has not only been public spirited
and remarkably successful in business, but as a neighbor he is kind and
obliging, ever ready to extend a helping hand to the needy, and as a friend his
loyalty has ever been above question. Fraternally he is a member of the Knights
of Pythias and the Grand Army of the Republic and religiously belongs with his
wife to the Baptist church. With few, if any, enemies, he has been able to win
for himself a prominent position in the community and it is with pleasure that
he is accorded representation in this volume, for it is largely due to the
efforts and influence of such men as he that the county of Brown is indebted for
its high moral standing among its sister counties.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY
INDIANA

INCLUDING BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GOVERNORS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF INDIANA

ILLUSTRATED

1904

B. F. Bowen PUBLISHER


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