Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Ellison, James 1817 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   James Ellison, farmer, Covington, is one of that class of old settlers who,
during the early times of the county's settlement, spent much of his time in
hunting, fishing and trapping the game that abounded during the days of the
early settlers. He has probably killed more game than any of the settlers that
came to the county in as late a day as himself, his largest deer being one
hundred and fifty pounds, dressed. He is a native of Hamilton county, Ohio,
where he was born in 1817. He was raised in Clermont county, Ohio, until he was
sixteen years old, when he came to this county. He began working by the month on
a farm, and being of a free, easy and generous nature, he did not accumulate so
much property as many others, though he has a nice little home and farm, which
he bought in 1842. He has been married four times, and his wives were all
residents of Fountain county, which, as he says, "is proof of his good name at
home." He has, however, reared a family of only three children, two boys and one
girl. For the past twenty years Mr. Ellison has been a republican, and for forty
years he has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

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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