Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Leatherman, John 1811 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   John Leatherman, farmer, Newtown, was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, March
5, 1811. His mother, Rachel (Sprague), died when he was eleven years old. In
1828 he removed with his father, John, to Fountain county, and settled four
miles southwest of Newtown. His father died in 1833. In 1831 he began the
cabinet trade with George W. Hicks. Indoor work not agreeing with him he worked
at carpentering much of the time summers. He followed these two trades thirty
years. In 1833 he married Elizabeth Brimm, daughter of Churchwell Brimm, who
came from Kentucky and settled near Roseville, on the Big Raccoon, in Parke
county, in 1815. Her parents died the next year. She was born August 14, 1811,
and lived in Parke county till 1830, when she removed to Fountain. They have
eight children: William M., born December 8, 1833; Mary Catherine, February 9,
1836. died May 28, 1843; John, April 9, died June 19, 1838; Sarah, September 1,
1839, wife of Daniel Reed; James P., January 25, 1841, died June 4, 1843: John
W., April 11,1844; Harriet, June 26, 1846, died September 10, 1847; Clinton
Hale, July 30, 1847, died October 18, 1872, leaving a family. Mr. and Mrs.
Leatherman have been members of the Methodist church about fifty years, and the
former an Odd-Fellow about twenty years. Mr. Leatherman cast his first vote for
Henry Clay for president. He then became a free-soiler, and later a republican.
John Wesley was enrolled in Co. H, 72d Ind. Vols., in July 1862. His regiment
was one of those composing Wilder's celebrated brigade of mounted infantry, and
with this command he fought at Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Buzzard
Roost, Dalton, and Resaca; did duty throughout the Atlanta campaign, and was
engaged at Peachtree Creek; then returned to Louisville, where the command was
remounted, and reached Nashville after the destruction of Hood's army before
that city. He was with the expeditionary force of Gen. Wilson at the taking of
Selma, Alabama, by assault, just at the close of the war. He was mustered out at
Indianapolis in July 1865. Returning home, he sold groceries one year in
Newtown; since that he has been farming; in addition he is now operating a large
tile factory. He was married March 27, 1874, to Mary Dimmick. His wife belongs
to the Methodist church; and he has been an Odd-Fellow since 1865, and is a
republican.


Additional Comments:
Richland 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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