Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Brough, Benjamin F. 1804 - 1894
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

BENJAMIN F. BROUGH.

   Benjamin F. Brough departed this life in Delphi, September 24, 1894. He was
born in Mason county, Kentucky, December 18, 1804, and was at date of death,
eighty-nine years, nine months and six days old. His parents, came to Kentucky
from Scotland. He was the last surviving member of his father's family. He was
married in Kentucky to Mary Lyon and they were the parents of nine children. He,
with his family, came to Delphi in the year 1832. He resided many years on a
farm south of town. He, with others of this county, went to the gold fields of
California in 1850; after three years he returned home.

   Mr. Brough was one of the earliest school teachers, having taught; school in
a log school house in Delphi in which was held the circuit court. He taught many
years in the country schools. He was never known to be sick and died of old age
without pain, a case most remarkable, without a similarity probably in the state.


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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

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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