Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Diffenderfer, J. H. 1848 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   J. H. Diffenderfer, farmer, Covington, was born in Fountain county in 1848.
His father, Gotlieb Diffenderfer, was a native of Pickway county, Ohio, and
settled in Fountain county about 1845. He was a baker by trade, and for eight
years after coming to Fountain county he was engaged in carrying on a bakery in
Covington. His change in business was to buy the farm on which J. H. has now
lived for three years, and which is the old homestead, consisting of 190 acres.
When he bought it there were about twenty acres improved, and now it is a finely
conducted farm of 140 acres, with all the improvements. Mr. Diffenderfer was a
democrat, and during his residence in Troy township he held the office of
township trustee for several terms, and was also, for six years, township
assessor. He died in 1875 respected and honored by his family and many friends.
J. H. has been a resident of Troy township most of his life, and in fact was
twenty years old before he had ever left the township. His first travels outside
of his native county were in a somewhat novel costume. Being one day with some
friends bathing in the Wabash river he swam to the opposite bank and landed in
Warren county, but did not prolong his stay, and soon returned to his native
county by the same route that he had left it. He was married in 1870 to Miss
Isabella Briney. The issue of this union is three children. Mr. Diffenderfer has
given his time and attention very attentively to farming, and recently he has
given some attention to the growing of fine stock. In politics he is a democrat.

Additional Comments:
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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