Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Ennis, William W. 1810 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   William W. Ennis, insurance agent, Attica, son of William and Mary (Crissy)
Ennis, was born September 2, 1810. The Ennises were Irish. Two brothers, William
and John, emigrated to America before the revolution and settled in New York
city. When the war broke out John remained a royalist, but William joined the
patriots and went into the military service. He was taken prisoner by Lord Howe
and confined in the old Jersey prison-ship three months. He lost his property,
most of which his brother got. His son William, father of the subject of this
sketch, was a soldier through the war of 1812, and served in the 7th reg. N. Y.
Art., doing garrison duty at Castle Garden. In 1818 he moved to Indiana and
settled in Randolph county, where he cleared land and made a home. He moved to
Winchester, the county seat, and lived there several years, working at his trade
of shoe-making. About 1833 he moved to Dayton, Ohio, where he passed the
remainder of his life, and died in 1841. Mr. Ennis was reared a farmer. In 1830
he celebrated his marriage, at Winchester, with Sarah, daughter of David Wright,
and niece of Judge John Wright, afterward of Illinois. She died in 1832, leaving
one child, which also died shortly afterward. In 1835 he came to Fountain county
and settled near Pleasant Hill, Montgomery county. He farmed there a little
while, and then moved to Pleasant Hill and engaged in merchandising two years.
In 1847 he removed to Attica, where he has since made his home. During six years
of his residence in this place he was selling dry goods, and the next seven
years boots and shoes. For many years now he has been in the insurance business.
He filled the office of township trustee twelve or fourteen years in succession.
When he lived in Richland township he was justice of the peace one term of four
years. He was married a second time, in 1837, to Miss Rebecca, daughter of
Samuel Meek, an old settler of Fountain county. They have had one son and four
daughters: Almira, John W., Emma, Laura and Julia. Almira is the wife of James
H. Finfrock, of Attica, and John W. is an artist, and lives at Delphi. Mr. Ennis
is a republican. He and his wife and two daughters are Presbyterians, and one
daughter is a Methodist.

Additional Comments:
Logan 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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