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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

FREDERICK LANDES.

   Some men belong to no exclusive class in life and apparently insurmountable
obstacles have in many instances awakened their dormant faculties and served as
a stimulus to carry them upward on the ladder of success. The venerable
Frederick Landes, who, largely unaided, accumulated during his life time a farm
of three hundred and sixty acres, which he has divided among his children, has
lived, to good purpose and has achieved a splendid success. He made his way to a
respectable position in the world and today enjoys the hearty admiration of the
people of Carrollton township.

   Frederick Landes, retired farmer, who lives on Route No. 2 out of Flora,
Indiana, is a native of Carrollton township, Carroll county, born on December
31, 1844. Mr. Landes is the son of Felix and Eleanor (Quinn) Landes, the former
of whom was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, and the latter of whom, also was
born in Ohio. They came separately to Carroll county, and were married in
Carrollton township. Afterwards, Felix Landes purchased one hundred arid
twenty-seven acres of land which he subsequently cleared and improved. Both he
and his wife died on the old home farm. He was an active adherent to the
principles of Abraham Lincoln and was a devout member of the Presbyterian
church. Of the nine children born to Felix and Eleanor (Quinn) Landes, three are
now living; Frederick, the subject of this sketch; Henry, a farmer of Carrollton
township, and John E., also a farmer of this township.

   Frederick Landes was reared in Carrollton township and attended the public
schools of the township until seventeen years old, when he enlisted in Company
A, Seventy-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry in August, 1862. He was attached to
the Army of the Cumberland and in 1864 was captured at Okolona, Mississippi. He
was confined thereafter in the prison of Andersonville, Georgia, until April 29,
1864. He then came back to Carroll county. Mr. Landes was under twenty-one years
of age when the war closed.

   In August, 1866, Frederick Landes was married to Nancy E. Ewing, who was born
in 1845 and who died in 1901. She bore her husband four children, three of whom
are now living. Isaac N., a graduate of the common schools, is a farmer in
Carrollton township; W. S. is a resident of Carrollton township; Ella A. is the
wife of Charles Flora of Carrollton township; Felix E. died at the age of eleven.

   Mr. Landes' father died on April 28, 1889. Seven years after the death of Mr.
Landes' first wife, he was married the second time to Mrs. Cecil M. Crummet, the
widow, of Alvin Crummet.

   Although Frederick Landes formerly owned three hundred and sixty acres of
land in this township, he divided one hundred and sixty-four acres among his
children and retains now only one hundred and ninety-six acres. He owns a
threshing outfit and a corn shredder, which he has operated in this community.

   A Republican in politics, the venerable Frederick Landes served four years,
as trustee of Carrollton township. He has been active in local, county and state
politics all his life, and at one time was a nominee of the Republican party
for. sheriff of the county. Fraternally, he is a member of Samuel Stewart Post
No. 44, Grand Army of the Republic.


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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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