Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Preston, Charles B. 1867 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

CHARLES B. PRESTON.

   For more than three-quarters of a century the Preston family has been
prominent in the agricultural, civic and political history of Carroll county.
Charles B. Preston, a representative of the generation in the county, is a
native of Tippecanoe township born on December 10, 1867.

   Mr. Preston is the son of Andrew H. and Mary Archibald Preston, the former of
whom was a native of 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 of land, which at one time had been covered
with heavy timber, but 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 had two children, Julia, deceased, and Mary, of near
Lafayette. Andrew H. and Mary Preston were married in Carroll county, and have
had four children, all of whom are living. William is a resident of Lafayette;
Edward lives on the old homestead in Tippecanoe township; Albert resides in
California, and Charles B. is the subject of this sketch.

   Andrew H. Preston, who was a Republican in politics and a member of the
Christian church died in 1874 and his wife, who was a member of the Christian
church, died in 1905.

   Charles B. Preston received a good common-school education in the district
schools and lived at home with his mother until December 4, 1895, when he was
married to Effie Blanche Pixler, the daughter of Lafayette and Eliza (Sinks)
Pixler. The former was born in Ohio and the latter in Indiana. They were married
in Carroll county and had three children, two of whom are living. Effie Blanche
is the wife of Mr. Preston; George W. died at the age of four years in 1879, and
Frank R. lives in Indianapolis. Lafayette Pixler was a farmer by occupation and
spent most of his life in Tippecanoe township but died in Deer Creek township in
1902. His widow is still living in Indianapolis. Her parents were among the
pioneer settlers of Adams township, where they spent most of their lives and
where they died. Lafayette Pixler was a Republican in politics and a member of
the Delphi Lodge, No. 174, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Both he and his
wife were members of the Methodist church.

   Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Preston have had two children, both of whom are
living, Faye Marie and Ralph Gilbert Faye Marie, born on April 13, 1898,
graduated from the district township school in 1914 and is now a student in the
Delphi high school; Ralph Gilbert Preston, born on April 9, 1901, also graduated
from the Deer Creek township school, one year later than his sister.

   Mr. Preston purchased his present farm of one hundred and twenty acres in
March, 1896, and sometime ago sold forty acres but still retains eighty. He
himself has put nearly all of the modern improvements on the farm, including
most of the outbuildings, fences and drainage. He is a good farmer and a good
citizen and a man who enjoys the confidence of a host of friends in Deer Creek
township. He is a member of Delphi Lodge No. 28, Order of Odd Fellows. At the
age of eighteen, he took over the management of his mother's farm, and now has
the home free of all indebtedness. During the panic of 1896, he was compelled to
sell corn at sixteen cents a bushel, wheat at fifty cents a bushel, while hogs
realized only three dollars thirty cents per hundred.


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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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