Carroll-Clinton County IN Archives Biographies.....Long, James D. 1846 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JAMES D. LONG.

   James D. Long, a prosperous farmer of Democrat township, Carroll county,
Indiana, who owns two hundred acres of land one and three-quarters mile east of
Cutler, on the Burlington and Cutler pike, has served two terms as trustee of
his home township, and is therefore well known, not only to the people of
Democrat township, but to the people of Carroll county as well.

   Mr. Long was born two and one-half miles north of Lexington, Indiana, on the
Clinton and Carroll county line, July 25, 1846, and is a son of David and Hannah
(Harkrader) Long, natives of Warren and Butler counties, Ohio, respectively.
David Long's father emigrated from Scotland in an early day and settled in
Warren county, Ohio, and was there married, and lived in the Buckeye state the
remainder of his life. He owned two hundred and twenty acres of land altogether
in Warren county, Ohio. Anna Harkrader, the wife of David Long, was of German
descent, her parents having come from the Fatherland in an early day.

   David Long and his wife lived in Ohio for three years after their marriage,
one child having been born to them before leaving Ohio in 1837. In the latter
year they emigrated to Indiana, being among the first settlers in Owen township,
Clinton county. There David Long entered one hundred and sixty acres of land. He
later purchased eighty acres, and at the time of his death was the owner of two
hundred and forty acres of fine land. He was a prominent citizen in the pioneer
life of Clinton county, and took an especially prominent part in the early
politics of the county.

   Thirteen children were born to David and Anna (Harkrader) Long, all of whom
grew to manhood and womanhood: Washington, deceased; Catherine, the widow of W.
L. Mabbitt; Elizabeth, deceased, was the wife of Warren Adams; Martha, the widow
of William Weaver; Margaret, the wife of John Lennon, of Iowa; Eliza, the wife
of William McClune, also a resident of Iowa; Matilda, who was the wiie of James
Fennell, of Frankfort, and both are now deceased; Anna was the wife of Robert
Young, of Warren township, Clinton county, both now deceased; Mary, deceased,
was the wife of Frank McCrary, of North Carolina; Benjamin died at Chattanooga
while in the service of the Union army during the Civil War; Samuel, living one
mile east of Sedalia, Clinton county, Indiana; James D., the immediate subject
of this review; and Amanda, who died at the age of fourteen years.

   James D. Long lived at home with his parents until he was twenty-six years
old, assisting with the work on the home farm. On March 3, 1873, Mr. Long was
married to Hannah L. Herron, the daughter of Doctor Herron, who lived near
Lexington, in Democrat township, this county. After his marriage Mr. Long
purchased one hundred and twenty acres of land from his father-in-law, where he
lived until his removal to the farm known as the old Buren Wyatt farm of one
hundred and eighty acres, where he is now living. A little later Mr. Long added
twenty acres more to this farm, and is now the owner of two hundred acres of
fine farming land.

   Mr. and Mrs. Long are the parents of four children, three of whom are living:
Edwin, who died in infancy; Estella, the wife of Manford Smith, lives on the
farm adjoining her father: Carlos D., living on the home place; and Grover,
living at Delphi, this county, is a graduate of Purdue University.

   Fraternally, Mr. Long is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons, Lodge No.
3, at Cutler, Indiana. Politically, he is a Democrat. He has served two terms as
trustee of Democrat 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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