Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Booze, Henry 1832 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   HENRY BOOZE, a native of Knox County, Ohio, and one of the leading
stock-raisers of Highland Township, was born at Mount Vernon in 1832, and is one
of ten living children in a family of twelve born to Jacob and Anna (Slusser)
Booze, both of whom were natives of Pennsylvania, and of German descent. During
the Revolutionary war, our subject's grandfather was pressed into the service
with a six-horse team, but for the loss of his horses he never received any
recompense. After the war, he sold what property he had, and started West to
find a home, but when ready to purchase he found his continental money had so
depreciated in value as to be comparatively worthless. Jacob Booze was a house
joiner by trade, but in later years followed farming. He is yet living, and
resides in Allen County, Ohio, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years. He was
three times married, by his first wife being the father of three children, and
by his second—the mother of Henry—nine children, all living but two. Henry Booze
was raised a farmer, secured a fair education in youth, and when twenty-six
years old left home, and a year later came to Greene County, Ind., and
established a sawmill near Solsberry, in Center Township. At the end of six
years, he sold out and started West with the purpose of seeing something of the
country. He secured a position as telegraph line repairer over the Union Pacific
road between Omaha and the mountains, and, in connection with a brother, worked
at this for seven months, during which time he crossed the plains six times. He
then returned to Greene County, Ind., and for seven years was a partner of F. H.
Bryan, at Solsberry, in merchandising. In 1871, he wedded Mrs. Lizzie
(Isenhower) Axtell, and in 1873 moved to his present place in Highland Township,
where he owns a well-stocked farm of 200 acres, upon which he has erected a
comfortable brick dwelling—the best in the township. Mr. Booze confines his
attention largely to sheep-raising, which he has demonstrated to be one of the
leading successful industries for those not owning farms on the bottom of White
River. He takes an active interest in the advancement of all laudable public
enterprises; is a Democrat in politics; and he and wife are parents of two
sons—Leonard and Walter. Mrs. Booze was born in Monroe County, Ind., in 1836, a
daughter of George and Sarah (Caffee) Isenhower. She was married in December,
1865, to Joseph Axtell, who died in January, 1870.

Additional Comments:
Highland Township Biographies

Extracted from:

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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