Carroll-Tippecanoe County IN Archives Biographies.....Leslie, Philip 1836 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

PHILIP LESLIE.

   To rear a large family of children to honorable and useful lives deserves
perhaps a consideration superior to that of any other achievement in life. This
credit belongs to Philip Leslie, a retired farmer of Madison township, Carroll
county, Indiana, where he still owns one hundred and sixty acres of land, having
divided some two hundred and seventy-six ecres among his several children. The
Leslie farm is situated two and one-half miles east of Ockley, in Madison township.

   Philip Leslie was born in Tippecanoe county, Indiana, March 15, 1836, and is
the son of John and Catherine (Mikesell) Leslie, the former of whom was born in
Pennsylvania and who removed with his father at the age of sixty-seven years to
Ohio. Jacob Leslie, the paternal grandfather of Philip, settled in Butler
county, ten miles from Dayton. Catherine Mikesell also moved with her parents
from Pennsylvania to Butler county, Ohio, and there grew to womanhood. After
their marriage in Butler county, Ohio, John and Catherine (Mikesell) Leslie
lived there for a few years or until they had four children, when they came to
Indiana, settling in Tippecanoe county, where they entered one hundred and sixty
acres of land. There they built a cabin and lived for several years, in the
meantime clearing twenty acres of the farm. Subsequently, they moved to an
adjoining farm northwest of the first and there they lived for many years. When
Mrs. Catherine Leslie was sixty-three years old and her husband sixty-seven,
they immigrated to Illinois, purchasing a farm there, and there spent the
remainder of their lives. They were the parents of thirteen children, only two
of whom are living, Philip, the subject of this sketch, and Catherine, the widow
of Charles Weaver.

   Philip Leslie did whatever he could find to do when he was a young man, until
i860, when he was twenty-four years old. At that time he purchased eighty acres
of land in Tippecanoe county, which he farmed for many years.

   On April 23, 1863, Philip Leslie was married to Sarah Jane Murphy, the
daughter of Alexander Murphy, of Clay township. After living on the farm until
1865, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie sold the farm and moved to Carroll county. He and his
brother-in-law established a woolen-mill at Prince William. After operating the
mill for one year, Mr. Leslie purchased one hundred acres of land, where he has
lived ever since. For sixteen years Mr. and Mrs. Leslie lived in a log house.  
At the end of that period, Mr. Leslie built a commodious brick house which he
now occupies. He owned at one time four hundred and thirty-six acres, which he
has divided among his children until he now retains only one hundred and sixty
acres.

   Mr. and Mrs. Leslie have been the parents of six children, Dr. Francis, who
is a graduate of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and is now situated in
Toledo, Ohio; Dora, the wife of Philip Ray, of Camden; Nevada T., the wife of
Eli Miller, of Democrat township; Roscoe, a resident of Nampa, Idaho; Raymond,
who lives in Cambridge City, Indiana; and Mabel, a graduate of the College of
Music at Oberlin, Ohio, married Earl Chapman, who was a student at DePauw
University for three years.

   Mr. Leslie is independent in politics, preferring to vote always for men and
measures rather than for parties and party emblems. He is a good man and a good
citizen and has discharged well all of the duties of life.


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BIOGRAPHICAL SECTION
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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


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