Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Wasson, Samuel A. 1861 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

SAMUEL A. WASSON.

   Unquestioned integrity and indefatigable industry have resulted in the
well-improved farm owned by Samuel A. Wasson, the gentleman whose brief history
follows. The major portion, if not the entire business life of Mr. Wasson has
been devoted to the occupation of farming, which line his ancestors, who were
honored pioneer citizens of Orange county, Indiana, always followed.

   Samuel A. Wasson, farmer, Burrows, Indiana, was born on September 27, 1861,
on the farm, a part of which he now owns, and is a son of Thomas L. and Mary
(Johnson) Wasson. He grew to young manhood under his father's roof, attending
the district schools during the winters and performed his share of the farm work
during the summers, until he was nineteen years of age, when his father died,
and he was called upon to take over the management of the farm. Mr. Wasson has
always been a wide-awake man, having associated with men of progressive and
up-to-date methods, and his name is well known as a man of advanced ideas in the
various interests which he represents in and about Burrows. Politically, he is a
stanch Republican, but has never been ambitious in the direction of
office-holding. He and his family are members of the Presbyterian church at
Burrows, of which he is one of the trustees. Mr. Wasson was originally the
manager of the Burrows Telephone Company, and now holds the office of treasurer.
He is a large stockholder and one of the directors of the Farmers State Bank of
Burrows.

   Thomas L. Wasson, father of the subject of this sketch, was born on March 4,
1822, in Orange county, Indiana, and was a son of John Wasson. His wife, Mary
(Johnson) Wasson, was born in Virginia, and came to Carroll county, Indiana,
where they were united in marriage, and where they lived until their death, Mr.
Wasson dying on April 4, 1880, and his wife, in May, 1894. They were both
members of the Presbyterian church at Rock Creek, where Mr. Wasson took an
active part in church work. They were the parents of four children, all of whom
are living in 1915: Samuel A.; Susan, who is the wife of L. Lesh, lives on the
old home farm; Laura became the wife of John E. Dixon, and lives at Burrows,
Indiana; Margaret Wasson is unmarried.

   John Wasson, the paternal grandfather, came from North Carolina, and settled
in Orange county, Indiana, at an early date.

   Samuel A. Wasson was united in marriage on August 25, 1889, with Minnie
Groniger. Mrs. Wasson died in August, 1895. Mr. Wasson was married, secondly, to
Susie Girton, in May, 1901. She was born in Cass county, Indiana, receiving her
education at the public schools. This union has been blest with one child,
Robert L., born on April 14, 1911.

   Mr. Wasson is a gentleman of quiet and unassuming manners, and is duly
deserving of being placed on record in this volume as a representative citizen
of Rock Creek township.


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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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