Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Bever, Michael 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Michael Bever, farmer and stock raiser, Newtown. About 1825 Henry and
Elizabeth (Evans) Bever, originally from Virginia, came from Ohio to Fountain
county, and settled on Coal creek, in Cain township, where the subject of this
sketch was born in 1830. His brother Alexander lives on the old homestead. When
his parents arrived in the county there were but three or four families living
in the neighborhood where they made their home. In getting here they were
compelled to make their own roads by cutting their way through the forests. His
mother died in February, 1865, and his father in September 1872. Mr. Bever was
married November 11, 1852, to Elizabeth Thompson. They have had eight children:
Joanna, born December 24, 1853, died September 2, 1855; James W., born November
16, 1855; John M., November 16, 1857; Henry W., March 30, 1860; Alexander,
January 13, 1862; Nathaniel E., February 20, 1864; Wilbert N., March 20, 1867;
Chauncey, March 21, 1871; and Artilla, January 13,1S75. In 1851 Mr. Bever went
to California via Panama, and remained there about ten months. He arrived
without funds, but immediately went to work, and during his stay saved $1,000.
This was his start in life. Returning home he invested it in 160 acres of land
in Cain township, and engaged in farming and trading in real estate till the
spring of 1867. He then moved to Rossville, Vermilion county, Illinois, near
which place he bought a farm from Alvan Gilbert, but his health failing there,
in the spring of 1869 he came back with his family to his old home in Fountain
county. In March, 1873, having sold his farm, he moved to his present home in
Richland township. He owns about 850 acres of land, 450 being in the home place
and the balance in Cain township. Mr. Bever is a decided republican, and has
been a Mason since 1866. He is a zealous temperance advocate, and has
recommended and encouraged total abstinence by example as well as precept,
during an active and well-spent life. His wife has been a life-long member of
the Methodist Episcopal church, and he has sat at the communion board with that
numerous people since he was seventeen years old.

Additional Comments:
Richland Township

Extracted from:

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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