Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Appleton, Wilson 1847 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

WILSON APPLETON.

   Stock raising has become one of the scientific arts of the day, the interest
having become so widely spread that societies are rapidly being formed all over
the country, in order that farmers and stockmen may be instructed in the most
approved methods of breeding, feeding and caring for all kinds of stock, as well
as in the best system of placing animals upon the market.

   Wilson Appleton, farmer and stock raiser, Camden, Indiana, was born on
January 29, 1847, in Lebanon county, Ohio, and is a son of John and Lettie
(Brown) Appleton. His youth was spent on his father's farm, where he remained
until he was nineteen years old, when he bought forty acres of land at a cost of
five hundred dollars, which he farmed for about two years, and then sold out,
buying an interest in eighty acres. He again sold out and came to Carroll
county, buying one hundred and sixty acres, eighty acres of which he sold to his
brother, Joseph, and forty acres to Michael Ryan, all at a good profit, and now
owns a splendid tract of land, consisting of three hundred acres, where he
raises fine stock of every kind, which he disposes of by the carload each year.
Politically, Mr. Appleton has given his vote to the Republican party ever since
attaining his majority.

   John Appleton, father of the subject of this sketch, was born near Trenton,
New Jersey, of which state his father was also a native. John grew up on a farm
and remained in his native state until he was twenty-one years of age, when he
migrated to Ohio, where he engaged in farming, as he worked by the day, until he
was twenty-five years of age, when he was united in marriage with Lettie Brown,
daughter of John Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Appleton lived for a time at Lebanon, Ohio,
where they were engaged in the grocery business, and in 1852 they moved to Cass
county, Indiana, by canal, landing at Logansport. They afterward moved to Rock
Creek, Washington township, Carroll county, where Mr. Appleton bought a saw-mill
and forty acres of land, operating the mill about ten years, and living on the
place until he died. He went to the Civil War in Company K, One Hundred
Twenty-eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in 1864, serving until he
was taken sick and sent home, after which he followed agriculture. John and
Lettie (Brown) Appleton were the parents of six children.

   Wilson Appleton was united in marriage on August 31, 1871, with Melinda C.
Yerkes, daughter of Henry and Mary (Woodward) Yerkes. She died on July 31, 1910.
This union has been blest with three children: Charles A., who lives on the home
place; Burton F., in business at Deer Creek, and Stella A. who became the wife
of S. W. Smith.

   Mr. Appleton boasts of Dutch and Irish ancestry. His fine stock has attracted
the attention of a great many large dealers, his reputation having reached far
and wide.



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Biographical Section of

HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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