Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Schermerhorn, Allen C. 1852 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Allen C. Schermerhorn, farmer, Newtown, eldest son of Jacob J. and Martha A.
(Odell) Schermerhorn, was born in Richland township, November 9, 1852. He was
educated at Stockwell Collegiate Institute, spending nearly three years at that
institution. His sister's death occurring just before the end of the year, when
he would have graduated in the scientific course, he lacked ten weeks of
finishing it, and did not return to receive his degree. He was married September
15, 1875, to Rhoda Unity, daughter of John S. Martin. Both are members of the
Methodist church. He has been a Mason six years, and has his membership in
Richland Lodge, No. 205. He owns 100 acres of land and his wife 212 acres. In
the homestead where they live are 152 acres of choice land. He is an active man
in his community, and politically 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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