Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Dagger, John A. 1836 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   John A. Dagger, farmer, Newtown, was born in Richland township, December 22,
1836. He is the son of Charles and Mary (Waskey) Dagger. The latter was born and
reared near the Natural Bridge in Rockbridge county, Virginia. The former
visited this region of Indiana in a very early day; in 1824 he entered land
here, and afterward went back to Virginia and married. Mrs. Dagger rode all the
way from that state on horseback to reach her frontier home. Her husband died in
1837, and on February 14, 1847, she was married to Ananias Ogden. Mr. Ogden was
one of the earliest settlers in Fountain county. He was born in Rockbridge
county, Virginia, in 1799. He came from Montgomery county, Ohio, with a man
named Tanner, in the autumn of 1824; the latter bought a tract of land on Coal
creek just below the Lighty farm (the piece is now owned by Mr. Moffitt), and
then both returned together. The next year Mr. Ogden came with his father and
his family to make permanent settlement here, and they entered land. The tract
which Mr. Ogden entered is now owned by Usual Meeker, and that which his father
entered belongs to Mr. Meeker and the Rices. The first winter that these people
were here they kept their cows on browse. Mr. Dagger received a fair English
education, and having always been a student in a comprehensive sense, has stored
his mind well with the facts of general and scientific knowledge. He attended
the Centennial Exposition. He owns 100 acres of valuable land one mile south of
Newtown. Has been a Mason about fifteen years, and a democrat all his life.
Among some mislaid notes we find some additional facts regarding the Daggers. As
stated by one of them, there were three brothers who came from Virginia in 1831:
James, who was married; Charles, the father of John A., who went back in one
year and married, as before stated, and Madison. James lived on Coal creek,
where he died in 1877. Madison received a liberal education at Bloomington,
Indiana. He was employed for a number of years as surveyor and engineer on
public works, and helped locate the first railroad that was run into Cincinnati.
When the Daggers came here they entered land farther up on Coal creek than
anybody else had yet done, except that Aaron Hatfield was settled at Newtown.

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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