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many valuable and substantial improvements. He makes a specialty of
the raising of stock, and is very successful in both his farming and stock
interests.
    Mr. Englehart was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, March 20,
1846, and is of German parentage. His father, John Englehart, for
many years a prominent farmer in Jackson township, was born in Ger-
many, and when a young man came to America and married in Zanes-
ville, Ohio, where he first located, a native daughter of his own country,
Magdalina Zimmerman, they becoming the parents of five children, three
sons and two daughters. For several years after coming to America Mr.
Englehart worked at the stone cutter’s trade, and was then engaged in
agricultural pursuits in Ohio until his removal to Clay county, Indiana,
in an early period in its history. He arrived here soon after the war and
bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in Jackson township, which
he and his sons cleared of its dense growth of timber, and this farm con-
tinued as his home until his death. He gave his political allegiance to
the Democratic party, and was a member of the Lutheran church.
    His son, John W. Englehart, was a young man when he came to
Clay county, and he was married in Jackson township in 1869 to Lena
Byers, who was born and reared in Zanesville, Ohio. Her father, John
Byers, came from his native land of Germany to America when a young
man and located in Ohio, where he was married to Lena Bastian, also
a native of the fatherland, and together they came to Clay county about
five years subsequent to the arrival of Mr. Englehart, purchasing one
hundred and sixty acres of land in Jackson township. Mr. Englehart
affiliates with the Democracy, and is a member of the Lutheran church.


    WILSON NEAL.—For many years a popular and successful educator,
but now a farmer, Wilson Neal, of Lewis township, has spent the greater
part of his life in this vicinity,and,ever regardful of the public weal,has
been an able assistant in advancing the highest interests of town and
county, at the same time gaining for himself the reputation of one who
deserves the confidence and trust of his fellow-men. A native of this
township, he was born October 19, 1857, being a son of Rev. John and
Elizabeth (Love) Neal, of whom a sketch may be found elsewhere in
this work.
    The boyhood of Wilson Neal was passed in laying the foundation of
his substantial education in the district schools of Lewis township. Being
ambitious and studious, he afterwards attended a graded school in Riley
township, Vigo county, taught by Prof. Moss, from there going to
Hymera, where his teachers were Mahlon R. Neal and Judge Henry.
Later he attended the State Normal School at Terre Haute, and at the
age of nineteen years began his professional career in his home district,
teaching in the Buchanan school. For twenty years he taught through
the school terms of each season, being employed, principally, in his home
town, although he taught a short time in Greene county, Indiana, and
one term in Nebraska, near Lincoln, In 1888, turning his attention to
agriculture, Mr. Neal located on his present farm, which then contained
twenty-five acres of land, with no improvements. He has since bought
additional land, having now eighty acres in his home farm, and twenty
acres of bottom land, and in the care and management of his property
displays much ability and skill. He has erected a good set of frame build-
ings, the house being pleasantly located on an elevated site, and has