Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Gee, John T. 1834 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JOHN T. GEE.

   There is no county in the state of Indiana which has not been honored in the
characters and careers of her farmers. In every section of the state may be
found men who have become leaders in agriculture, men who have succeeded in this
vocation because of their superior intelligence, natural endowment and force of
character. It is always profitable to study such lives, weigh their motives and
hold up their achievements as incentives to greater activities and higher
excellence on the part of others. These reflections are suggested by the career
of the venerable John T. Gee, retired farmer of Madison township, Carroll
county, Indiana, who has forged to the front ranks of the farmers of Carroll
county and who, by well-applied industry, intelligent management and careful
saving, has accumulated a large competence in farm property.

   Mr. Gee is a native of Carroll county, Indiana, born on December 21, 1834. He
is the son of the late Andrew Gee, a native of Ohio, who immigrated to Democrat
township, Carroll county, Indiana, in 1829, making the trip overland in a
covered wagon. Andrew Gee was one of the committee which gave Democrat township
its name. After establishing a home in the wilderness here, he took up farming
and owned a considerable body of land in the township. He was a Democrat in
politics. The late Andrew Gee was the father of twelve children, Moses, Nancy,
Andrew, John T., Benjamin, Alfred, Ellen, Amos, Elizabeth, William, James and
Charles.

   John T. Gee received a common-school education and, when a young man old
enough to begin life on his own responsibilities, he engaged in making shingles
and cutting hoop-poles. After making some money in this way, he went to
California, where, for some time, he was engaged in mining. He also spent five
years in Oregon and then returned to Carroll county and purchased two .hundred
acres of land, which he cleared and upon which he erected farm buildings. Since
that time, he has bought two hundred and forty acres more and now owns
altogether four hundred and forty acres. Upon all of this land Mr. Gee has made
substantial improvements.

   Mr. Gee's first wife, Anna Martin, to whom he was married in 1879, was a
native of White county, Indiana. She died the following year after marriage and
he was next married to Isabelle Schnepp, who was born in Washington township,
Tippecanoe county, the daughter of David and Susanne (Hughes) Schnepp. Mrs.
Gee's parents were natives of Ohio, her father having come to Carroll county
when a lad, accompanying his parents in a covered wagon to the great Hoosier
state. Mrs. Gee's parents were married in Deer Creek township and were farmers
all of their lives. Mrs. Gee was the fourth child in the family and is one of
three children now living. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Gee were married on November 24,
1886, and to them have been born two children, Aouda and Oscar. By his first
marriage, Mr. Gee had four children: One who died in infancy; Edward, of
Altoona, Pennsylvania; Samuel and Charles, both of Madison township.


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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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