Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Orcutt, Josiah L. 1820 - 1873
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Josiah L. Orcutt, deceased, Rob Roy, was born in Onondaga county, New York,
July 25, 1820. His grandfather Orcutt was a soldier of the revolution. His
father died when he was nine years old, and he enjoyed considerable freedom; he
was reared to work on a farm, but neglected his education. He remedied this
defect by going to school after he became of age. In 1847 he came to Fountain
county, and on the 11th of October of the following year married Hannah J.
Crawford, daughter of Dr. Crawford. She was born September 22, 1828. Her father
emigrated from Warren county, Ohio, and settled first on Bear creek in this
township, a few years, finally removing about 1835 to the place where his widow
at present lives, and where he died September 29, 1847; aged forty-four years.
Her mother's name before marriage was Elizabeth Cline. Mr. and Mrs. Orcutt had
eight children, as follows: Sarah E. (dead), Laura A. (dead), Theodore C.
(dead), Florence E. (dead), John L., Simon J., Luella, and Lydia. Mrs. Orcutt
was converted at the age of nineteen and united with the Presbyterian church, of
which she was a member twenty-six years. At last, the distance being so great to
Rob Roy, where she worshiped, and a Methodist society having been organized near
her home, she withdrew from the former church and joined the latter. This was
about six years ago. Her husband died of lung fever February 1, 1873. He was a
reading, intelligent man. The family have eighty acres of land where they live,
valued at $3,500, and eighty-seven acres in Iroquois county, Illinois, worth $2,500.

Additional Comments:
Shawnee Township

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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