Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Ferguson, D. S. 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   D. S. Ferguson, farmer, Covington, the present keeper and superintendent of
the county poor farm, was appointed to his position by the commissioners of
Fountain county March 1, 1880, holding the same for one year. He is a thoroughly
efficient manager and practical farmer, and received his present appointment
over nineteen competitors and bidders. Under his management there is already a
visible improvement, and those who are fed and cared for at the county's expense
are worthy objects of charity, and not specimens of the tramp order. The average
number of inmates is about twenty-five. The total number of acres in the farm,
220; number improved and cultivated, 180. Mr. Ferguson is a man about thirty-two
years old, and is the son of Zachariah and Jane (Kergen) Ferguson, who settled
in Wabash township, Fountain county, as early as 1835. Mr. Ferguson has been
interested in milling, distilling and farming. D. S. Ferguson has been dependent
on his own resources. His early life was spent in his native county. In April,
1876, he married Emily, daughter of O. Shelby, who is now one of Fountain
county's leading farmers and stock dealers. Besides the interests owned by Mr.
Ferguson in Fountain county, he has also secured a fine farm of 160 acres in
Cowley county, Kansas. Politically his views are democratic.

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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