Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Blue, E. C. 1804 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   E. C. Blue, farmer, Covington, is the son of Wm. Blue, who was one of
Fountain county's old and prominent pioneers. He was born in 1804, and was a
native of Virginia, and was raised in Ohio until the age of eighteen years. He
then, in 1822, came farther west and settled in what afterward became Fountain
county. He settled in Troy township, and was probably more instrumental in the
development and improvement of the farm lands than any of the pioneers of Troy
township. He made the improvements on four or five different farms, and at the
time of his death, which occurred in 1873, he was the owner of 900 acres of
land. During the latter part of his life he was an active republican. He was
married four different times, and raised quite a large family of girls, but only
one son, whose name heads this sketch. He is engaged in farming, and owns a farm
in the northern part of Troy township. He has been twice married, and has a
family of five children; and has during his short married life met with much
misfortune, and has paid no less than $3,000 of physicians' charges. He is an
honorable and fair-minded man, and one whose word is as good as his bond.

Additional Comments:
Troy 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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