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

   Dr. William Colvert, practicing physician and farmer, Stone Bluff, is the son
of John and Deborah Colvert; the former a native of Virginia, the latter of
Ohio. They came to Fountain county in 1822, and settled in Van Buren township,
where William, their son, now lives. William Colvert was born in Ohio in 1819,
and came to Fountain county with his parents, and was reared to all the
privations and hardships of pioneer life, receiving but little school education
till he was twenty-one years old; then, by his own industry, he attended school
at the Asbury University, Greencastle, Indiana, for a time; then began school
teaching, which he followed four years, and took up the study of medicine with
Drs. Crawford and Talbot, of Greencastle. He has been a successful practitioner
since 1847. He was married in 1863 to Hester Todd, a native of Delaware,
daughter of Charles and Jane Todd, both natives of Delaware, and settlers of
Fountain county in 1852. By this marriage he has five children, all boys. He has
a very large farm, fairly stocked and well improved. The most noted of his
pupils is the Hon. Daniel Voorhees. Dr. Colvert is a very liberal man in his
religious views, an open, free-hearted man with his neighbor, and a staunch
republican in politics.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren 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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