Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Bonham, Martin 1818 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   MARTIN BONHAM, a native of Harrison County, Ohio, was born October 8, 1818, a
son of David and Tacy (Phillips) Bonham, who were natives of the Old Dominion,
and early pioneers of the Buckeye State. Martin is the sixth born in a family of
ten children, and when yet a small lad, was taken to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, by
his parents, where he was raised, and where, by dint of considerable
self-application, he secured a good elementary education. When eighteen years of
age, he began life's battle on his own responsibility, and choosing farming, has
always made that his vocation. In 1832, he became a resident of Greene County,
and purchasing 160 acres of land, where he now resides, began improving it. He
began life with but little or no means at his command, but by industry and
frugality secured an estate of 600 acres. This Mr. Bonham has decreased somewhat
by his liberality with his children, but he yet retains a good farm, which is
underlaid and surrounded with large fields of coal of a superior quality.
November 5, 1840, he was married to Elizabeth Hiller, who was born in Jefferson
County, Penn., July 9, 1821, a daughter of Peter and Mary (Milliken) Hiller.
Eight children have blessed their union, as follows: Mary S., Martin H., Samuel,
David P., William J., Margaret A., Eliza J. and Rebecca G. Mr. Bonham is one of
Greene County's early pioneers, and where he has lived so long and become so
widely known, he is universally liked and respected.

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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