Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Troxell, John G. 1830 - 1898
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

JOHN G. TROXELL.

   John G. Troxell was born in Jackson county, Alabama, December 30, 1830, and
with his fathers family came to Carroll county, Indiana, in the year 1840, and
resided near Pittsburg. In 1861 he enlisted in Company C, Forty-sixth Regiment
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and at the close of the period of enlistment,
re-enlisted on the 20th of July, 1863, was promoted captain and served the three
years and on account of ill health was discharged on April 4, 1865.

   John G. Troxell was married to Mary E. Gosnell, April 7, 1865, and to this
union were born three daughters. He served one term as county commissioner,
during which the iron bridge across the Tippecanoe river was built. He was a
member of the Free and Accepted Masons and a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. He died at his residence in Delphi, November 16, 1898, survived by
his widow and three children.



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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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