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

   George Nave, farmer and grain-buyer, Attica, second son of John and Anna M.
(Umbarger) Nave, was born in Nicholasville, Desmond county, Kentucky, in 1817.
The family removed, the next year, to Butler county, Ohio; and in 1828 to
Fountain county, Indiana, settling two miles south of Attica. Here Mr. Nave has
lived since, until four years ago he moved into Attica. Mr. Nave began life as a
young man with very little capital, but he had energy and was industrious, and
now enjoys the reward which fortune pays to a judicious combination of toil with
calculation. His attention has been closely absorbed with raising grain and hogs
and buying land; and it is a notable fact that he has never conveyed but one
piece of land; this was fifty-seven acres on Shawnee creek, on which the Nave
mill stood, and was sold to Decatur J. Shepard. He owns 2,000 acres: of this 751
acres lie close to Attica; 80 acres on Turkey Run; 260 acres in Iroquois county,
Illinois, and 900 acres in Webster county, Iowa. This is all eligible to market,
and valuable. For sixty-three years Mr. Nave has renounced the claims and firmly
withstood the excitement of politics, having never in all his life cast a single
ballot. He was married in 1846 to Ann Eliza Cook. Of his two sons, Hiram and
Columbus, the latter is the only one living. The former died at the age of fourteen.

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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