Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Voliva, James H. 1836 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   James H. Voliva, attorney-at-law, Newtown, was born on the farm which he owns
and occupies, one and three-fourths miles southwest of Newtown, March 29, 1836.
His parents were William and Margaret (Whitehall) Voliva, who emigrated to this
county from North Carolina in 1832, coming in company with Nathan and Jefferson
Voliva, Thomas Poyner, Adley Woodhouse, and the Whitehalls, heads of families,
and Reddick Hunnings and Thomas Whitehall, young men. Mr. Voliva was reared a
farmer, and received a common school education. At the age of seventeen he began
teaching school, and pursued this vocation until he was twenty-eight, teaching
winters and farming summers. Until seven years ago farming was his principal
occupation; but at that date he turned his attention wholly to law business, and
has so been engaged since. Mr. Voliva never took a regular course of study in
the schools or in an office, but read privately, and before he was twenty-one
had mastered the elementary works on the subject, though at this time he had no
intention of ever practicing the profession. Nine years ago he was admitted to
the common-pleas bar, and shortly afterward was licensed to practice in the
circuit court. He makes probate business a specialty, and in this department has
a very extensive practice, probably the largest in the county. He has been
justice of the peace for Richland township since 1867; and is an Odd-Fellow and
a Mason, and a leading republican in the community. He was united in marriage
with Frances R. Griffith, daughter of James D. Griffith, an early settler of
Shawnee township, October 23, 1864. They have had six children, live of whom are
living, as follows: Horace S., James E., deceased, Wilbur G., Charles E.,
Arthur, and Lelah Belle. Mrs. Voliva is a communicant in the Methodist Episcopal
church.

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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