Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Black, Aaron 1819 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Aaron Black, farmer, Newtown, was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, May 1, 1819.
He was the son of Matthias and Elizabeth (Hammel) Black. In the American
revolution his grandfather, David Black, served as a drummer, and was wounded in
the arm. His father was a volunteer in the war of 1812, and served under Gen,
Anthony Wayne. When sixteen years old Mr. Black went to learn the tinner's
trade; having finished it, in 1838 he came to Fountain county, arriving at
Newtown May 20. He set up in the tinning business and continued in it till 1855;
meantime he rented land and farmed to some extent. His next trading was in a
general store in company with his stepfather, Peter Webb, under the firm name of
Black & Webb. In 1862 they discontinued business, and since that time Mr. Black
has confined his efforts to farming. In 1865 he bought his present farm of 110
acres, lying three miles south of Newton. Mr. Black was married in 1840 to
Catharine A. Titus, of Shelby county, Indiana, by whom he had four children:
Mary Elizabeth (dead), Cynthia Ann (dead), Matthias Hammel, who has been in
Nevada since 1865, and Catharine Priscilla, wife of Thaddeus Colby. Mrs. Black
died February 13, 1847. His second marriage was with Ellen J. Graham, and
occurred October 2, 1862. They have had ten children, seven of whom are living:
Aaron Alexander, Stonewall Jefferson, Flora Ellen, Leland Preston, Taney Lee
(dead), Leolia Belle, Milo Newman, and Hampton Omega. Mr. Black has been justice
of the peace for Richland township four years. He allied himself to the
democratic party in early life and has adhered to it through good and ill report
and fluctuating fortune to the present time, with the tenacity of the most
devoted political affection, if we except the aberration in 1872, when, as Mr.
Black expresses it, he "was too blue in the blood to swallow Greeley." He is a
reading man, intelligent and respected.

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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