Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Songer, James 1828 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   James Songer, farmer, Veedersburg, was born January 9, 1828, in Van Buren
township, and is the son of Adam and Mary Songer, who settled in this township
in 1825, with its first settlers. The former was a soldier in the war of 1812.
In 1826 he entered land in Van Buren township, and made his home in the wild
forest but recently quitted by savage men, where he died in 1861, aged
sixty-seven; his wife in 1834. James Songer's paternal grandparents were of
Dutch descent; his maternal grandfather, James Keeling, was from England. James
S. was educated in the pioneer schools of Fountain county. In 1862 he was
married to Sarah J. Isley, daughter of Solomon and Jane Isley, both of whom were
natives of North Carolina. She is a native of Fountain county. By this alliance
he has seven children: James, Walsey, Arthur, Hardy, Julian, Manfred, and
Florence J. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity at Veedersburg, lodge No.
491, and is present secretary. He has a good farm of 300 acres, well fenced and
stocked. In politics he is a republican of the real abolition school, and has
been since he knew what it meant. Even when a boy could not bear the thought of
enslaving or caging animals. He and his family are well respected citizens.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren 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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