Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Preston, Edward G. 1863 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

EDWARD G. PRESTON.

   Mr. Edward G. Preston, who owns the old Preston homestead of eighty-acres
located in section 26, Tippecanoe township, Carroll county, is a prosperous and
enterprising farmer.

   Edward G. Preston was born on May 7, 1863, in Tippecanoe township, Carroll
county, and is the son of Andrew H. and Mary Preston, the former of whom was
born in New York and who came to Carroll county, entering land from the
government in Tippecanoe township, which has been held by the family ever since.
He was the first man to operate a threshing machine in Carroll county and owned
one hundred and twenty acres which at one time had been covered with heavy
timber and which before his death he cleared. His wife, whose maiden name was
Mary J. Mitts, was at the time of their marriage the widow of James Archibald,
by whom she had two children, Julia, deceased, and Joseph, of near Lafayette.
Andrew H. and Mary Preston were married in Carroll county, and had four
children, all of whom are living, namely: William is a resident of Lafayette;
Edward G. is the subject of this sketch; Albert resides in California, and
Charles B. is a farmer of Deer Creek township.

   Andrew H. Preston died at the age of sixty-three years and his wife, who was
a devout member of the Christian church, lived to be eighty-two.

   Edward G. Preston was educated in the common schools of Carroll county. He
grew up on the farm and learned wellthe methods of successful farming from his
father. He is well known to the people of Tippecanoe township and has a host of
friends not only in Tippecanoe township but in adjoining townships as well He is
a Republican in politics, but has taken no especial part in the campaigns of his
party or in the organization preliminary to campaign.


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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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