Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Herr, William T. 1847 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   William T. Herr, farmer, Attica, was born in Logan township, December 1,
1847. His father, Samuel Herr, emigrated from Maryland to this place in 1843,
and lived here two years; he then returned to that state, where his wife died,
and in 1847 he came again to Indiana, taking up his home a secoud time in Logan
township, and here he married Maria Jane Taylor, mother of the subject of this
notice. She had come here from Ohio in 1830. Both parents are now dead; the
father having deceased in 1851, and the mother in 1875. Mr. Herr enlisted in Co.
B, 135th Ind. Vols., for 100 days, in March, and was mustered in at Indianapolis
April 30, 1864. He did garrison and guard duty mostly at Stevenson and
Bridgeport, Alabama, and was mustered out at Indianapolis September 21, 1864. He
was married February 17, 1870, to Miss Nancy Jane Hays. They have two children:
Kittie Belle, born August 4, 1875, and Arthur Garfield, May 9, 1880. During the
years 1872, 1873 and 1874 Mr. Herr was living in Grant township, Vermilion
county, Illinois. He has the old homestead of ninety acres, valued at $5,500. He
is a republican.

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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