Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Burbridge, Samuel H.  1851 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Samuel H. Burbridge, miller, Attica, second son of Morgan Burbridge, was born
in La Fayette, Indiana, March 25, 1851. He received a common school education,
and was reared a miller. He came to this township in 1865, his parents preceding
him one year. He was too young for military service in the late war, but his
persistent ardor was three times displayed in attempts to reach a recruiting
office, and disappointed in each case by his being taken from the cars and
returned to his parents by acquaintances. When sixteen he left home on a trip to
Missouri, and returning stopped awhile in Illinois. Again he went to Kay county,
Missouri, traveling by team, and from there successively to Baxter Springs,
Kansas; Springfield and Jefferson City, Missouri, and thence to Texas, employed
to buy and drive cattle for a man at Springfield. He was in this business six
months, and then returned home. In 1873 he visited Springfield again. February
4, 1880, while attending to his duties in the mill, he was accidentally caught
in the machinery and severely injured in the left arm by having the flesh torn
from the bone, rendering this limb permanently useless. In politics he is a
republican. His father was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, December 6, 1817. In
the autumn of 1822 his parents moved to Montgomery county, and settled two and
one-half miles west of Crawfordsville. In the fall of 1823 his father bought his
land at the office in Terre Haute. Up to the time he was fifteen Mr. Burbridge
worked on a farm; then he began to learn the trade of a millwright. When a boy
he worked on the Michigan City mills. In connection with his business he has
visited and traveled in the states of Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas,
Louisiana, New York, and Pennsylvania. He was married December 25, 1847, to
Rachael A. Jones, who was born near Newcastle, Indiana, August 1, 1827. Their
four children are Charles L., Samuel H., Eliza J. (wife of George M. Foster),
and John William. After their marriage they lived two years at Crawfordsville,
and in the fall of 1849 removed to La Fayette, where he owned a foundry and
machine shop four years. In 1864 he settled in Shawnee township, and bought the
flouring-mill where he lives, on the Shawnee. He is still operating it. Before
this removal he was absent from home much of his time millwrighting, but since
that has given little attention to his trade.

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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