Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Minnix, Charles T. 1872 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 23, 2006, 10:06 pm

Author: John C. Odell (1916)

CHARLES T. MINNIX.

   Since coming to Flora, Indiana, about fifteen years ago, Charles T. Minnix, a
well-known contractor of Flora, Indiana, who is also the proprietor of the Flora
Artificial Stone Company, dealers in coal, stone and cement, has accumulated a
substantial competence and now owns, besides several properties in Flora and a
business room, other real estate which he has acquired by his own exertions and
efforts.

   Charles T. Minnix was born in Franklin county, Virginia, on October 20, 1872.
He is the son of John and Henrietta (Adkison) Minnix, both of whom were born and
reared in the Old Dominion state, where they spent all their lives. John Minnix
was a blacksmith by trade and a prominent member of the Presbyterian church in
the community where he lived. He was the father of thirteen children, all of
whom grew to maturity. Eleven are now living, but only Charles T. is a resident
of this state. The others still live in Virginia.

   Mr. Minnix was raised and reared in a little country town by the name of
Bonbrook and attended the country schools. At the age of fifteen he began to
learn the stone business, working four years in his apprenticeship. During this
period he received seventy-five cents per day. Later he became a foreman for the
man from whom he had learned the stonemason's trade and was associated with him
in business for seven years.

   In 1895 Mr. Minnix came to Indiana and located at Flora, where for two years
he lived on a rented farm. At the end of the time he moved back to Flora and
engaged in the contracting business. He was first engaged in stone work under
contract and later in cement work. He is now engaged, however, in general
contracting, and this includes the building of stone and gravel roads.

   In 1892 Mr. Minnix was married to Ida Sink, who has borne him six children,
Ethel, Bethel, Leo, Fern, Roy and Mary V. Ethel is a graduate of the Flora high
school and of Winona College and is now a teacher in the schools of Monroe
township. Bethel is a student in the third year of the Flora high school. Leo is
also a student in the Flora high school. Fern graduated from the common schools
in 1914. Roy is in school and Mary V. was born in 1915.

   Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Minnix are members of the Methodist church. Mr.
Minnix is a member of the Masonic lodge at Flora and votes the Republican
ticket. In this respect he has departed from the ways of his father, since he is
the only member of the Minnix family who belongs to the Republican party.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

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


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/carroll/bios/minnix75bs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/infiles/

File size: 3.4 Kb