Greene-Monroe County IN Archives Biographies.....East, Thomas J. 1844 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   THOMAS J. EAST was born in Monroe County, Ind., in 1844, and when only one
year old his parents removed to Greene County, where he was raised upon a farm,
receiving his early education from the common schools, subseqaently attending
the Bloomfield Seminary and. Bartlet Commercial College of Cincinnati,
graduating from the last-named institution in 1865. For two terms, he was
employed as school teacher in Center Township, this county, and for three years
served as Assistant Recorder of the county. He then located at Lyons, where he
embarked in merchandising, and acted as agent for the Indianapolis & Vincennes
Railroad for some time, afterward buying and shipping stock. In 1866, Miss Sue
L., the only surviving daughter of James and America E. (Ferguson) Van Slyke,
became his wife, and to them have been born five children—James J., Cora A.,
Nettie, Edgar P. and Roscoe T. Thomas P. East, the father of Thomas J., was of
English origin, his birth occurring in North Carolina in 1814. He came to Monroe
County, Ind., with his parents in about 1830, where he was married to Sarah
Carmichael, who was born in the year 1815, a daughter of Richard and Mary
(Graves) Carmichael. Mr. East became prominent in the affairs of Greene County
after his removal here in 1845, and at one time was selected as Probate Judge,
but, owing to the change into the Common Pleas Court, was debarred serving in
this capacity. He was employed in stock-buying and banking for many years, and
by his upright conduct and generous ways secured a large circle of warm friends.
He died in this county in 1872.

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Fairplay Township Biographies

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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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