Carroll-Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Sterling, Thomas 1800 - 1884
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

THOMAS STERLING.

   Thomas Sterling was born on December 25, 1800, in Pennsylvania, and came to
this county from Wayne county, Indiana, in July, 1826. The history of the
journey of this family to the Wabash was written by the wife of Mr. Sterling,
and will be found elsewhere in this volume. Mr. Sterling was one of the solid
men of his day. He was county commissioner in 1831 and i860. He was one of the
charter members of the first temperance society, organized in the year 1828 in
the log school-house in Delphi. It was known as the Washington Temperance
Society. At the first meeting of the Old Settler's Society, he related the
following: "The only enemy I am afraid of is snakes. A young hunter, being
alone, camped on the ground on which the city of Logansport now stands, was
bitten by a rattlesnake one night and would have died, but some Indians had
their tents in that vicinity to whom he 'hallowed.' They took charge of the
white hunter, cured him of the bite, and sent him on his way rejoicing. He was
admonished by the Indians, if he got wet, he would die. The name of the hunter
was Alexander."

   Mr. Sterling resided on the farm he located, on the Delphi and Camden road,
about live miles east of Delphi, until his death, which occurred on December 23,
1884. His wife was Frances Porter, married in Wayne county, Indiana, and died on
September 27, 1875.


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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

CHAPTER IX.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES OF DECEASED PIONEERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.


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