Carroll-Clinton County IN Archives Biographies.....Maggart, James R. 1857 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JAMES R. MAGGART.

   James R. Maggart, a well-to-do farmer of Burlington township, Carroll county,
Indiana, is well known as one of the alert, progressive and successful farmers
of this great county. In his labors as a farmer, he has not permitted himself to
follow obsolete methods, but has experimented for improved processes, and to his
initiative, enterprise and investigative spirit, perhaps, is due a very large
degree of his success. He commands the confidence and regard of the people of
Burlington township and is a man of honorable business methods. He not only owns
two hundred and five acres in Burlington township, but owns eighty acres in
Democrat township. He lives on the home farm in Burlington township, which is
situated a mile from the Clinton county line and a half mile from the
Democrat-Burlington township line.

   Mr. Maggart was born in Burlington township, Carroll county, Indiana, January
3, 1857. He is the son of Reuben and Sarah (Bell) Maggart, the former of whom
emigrated from Ohio with his father, Reuben Maggart, Sr., when nine years old.
Reuben Maggart, Sr., entered a large tract of land on his first visit to Carroll
county and then returned to Ohio for the family. Reuben Maggart, Sr., spent the
remainder of his life on the land which he had entered on coming to Carroll
county. The land, however, was located on the Clinton-Carroll county line. He
died at the age of sixty-five years and, at the time of his death, was a fairly
well-to-do man. Reuben Maggart lived partly in Clinton and partly in Carroll
county. By his marriage to Sarah Bell there were born seven children, six of
whom grew to maturity. An infant child died at birth. The living children are
Simeon, who lives in Sedalia, Clinton county; James R., the subject of tliis
sketch; D. B., who lives in Burlington township; Elias, who lives in Clinton
county; Reuben, who left home some years ago, and Matilda, the wife of Joseph
Thompson, of Burlington township.

   James R. Maggart remained at home with his father and mother until twenty-two
years old. He was married on April 23, 1879, to Cynthia Ticen, the daughter of
Perin Ticen, of Clinton county. Mrs. Maggart died on March 15, 191 o. She was
the mother of nine children, six of whom are now living: Nora, the wife of Ross
Fellows; Eunice E., the wife of Tunie Spear, of Frankfort; Elga Opal, the wife
of Ross Barnard, of Kokomo; James Orton, Dorothy and Veva, all of whom live at
home.

   Mr. Maggart is identified with the Democratic party in local, state and
national politics. With little assistance from family or influential friends,
Mr. Maggart has made a splendid success of his life. He has accumulated a large
competence, but, not only that, he has won what is far more priceless, the
esteem and confidence of his neighbors and fellow citizens.


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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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