Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Bryan, F. H. 1844 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   F. H. BRYAN, son of Edward Bryan, was born in Beech Creek Township, Greene
County, Ind., October 24, 1844. His father was a native of Orange County, Ind.,
born in 1819, and a son of Edward Bryan, Sr., who came from South Carolina to
Lost River in Orange County about the time Indiana was admitted into the Union.
The family is of Irish descent, but the wife of Edward Bryan, Jr., Malinda
Bullock, to whom he was married in Greene County, in 1842, was of English and
Welsh descent, and was a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Gaston) Bullock, both
of these families settling in Greene County at a very early period in its
history. Edward Bryan, Sr., together with his family, removed to Greene County
in 1822, and settled in Beech Creek Township. They engaged in farming and
clearing until Edward, Sr.'s death, in about 1846. Edward, Jr., lived on the
farm until 1853, when he moved to Bloomfield, where for one season he engaged in
merchandising, but the fall of 1853 removed to Solsberry and continued a like
business with success for eight years. He died of consumption August 6, 1861,
leaving a widow—who died of the same disease two years later—and three children:
F. H., E. C. and John E.  F. H. took charge of the family left in his charge by
the death of his parents until their respective marriage. He thus began doing
for himself at the age of sixteen years, and in youth obtained only a common
school education. On the death of his father, he purchased his store, and the
greater part of his life has since been devoted to merchandising in Solsberry.
He was married in 1873 to Miss A. F. Gibbons, and by her is the father of three
children—Edward, Mabel and Fay. Mr. Bryan is a member of both Masonic and Odd
Fellows fraternities, and is a Republican in politics. Mrs. Bryan was born in
Guernsey County, Ohio, November 11, 1850, and came to Greene County with her
parents, Joseph and Margaret (Shaw) Gibbons, in November, 1865. She is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Bryan held the office of Postmaster at
Solsberry for three years. He owns about 450 acres of land in Beech Creek,
Center and Highland Townships.

Additional Comments:
Beech Creek 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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