Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Auter, Peter 1822 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Peter Auter, farmer, Rob Roy, son of James and Martha (Malatt) Auter, was
born in Montgomery county, Ohio, December 27, 1822. His father died when he was
eight years old, and in October of the same year (1830) his mother emigrated
with her family of six children, Harvey, Peter, John, Mary Jane, Elizabeth and
Ann, to Shawnee township, stopping first in Rob Roy; with the exception of three
years that he was in Richland, he has lived here since. His mother died in
September 1848. He was married January 6, 1848, to Sarah Clawson, daughter of
Abraham Clawson, who came to this township from Pickaway county, Ohio, in the
fall of 1825, and improved the farm now owned by Ben Malatt. Mrs. Auter was born
on this place in 1830. They have had eleven children; Elizabeth, born March 3,
1849; Margaret, born August 29, 1851, died January 25, 1856; Abram, born August
12, 1853; John, February 25, 1856; Wilson, born November 24, 1857, died August
12, 1860; Marshal, born October 5, 1859; Solomon, born April 7,1861; Martha
Ellen, born February 14, 1866; Susie, born January 1, 1869, and Edgar Ingo, born
May 9, 1871. Mrs. Auter belongs to the Christian church. Her father had two
children, Sarah and Jonathan. The latter was a member of the 76th Ill. Vols.,
and died of disease in 1864, at Bolivar, Tennessee, after two years' service.
Mr. Auter was drafted, and furnished a substitute for the army at a cost to him
of $1,200. He is a democrat.

Additional Comments:
Shawnee Township

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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