Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Faucett, Levi J. 1843 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   LEVI J. FAUCETT, a progressive and self-made man of Greene County, was born
in the township where he now resides July 27, 1843, and is a son of A. J.
Faucett. After receiving his preliminary education in the common schools, he
completed his schooling with a three years' collegiate course. In 1869, he
became his father's partner in saw milling, having purchased the old water saw
and grist mill owned by Col. Fellows. In five years, this partnership was
dissolved, Levi J. continuing two years longer, when, owing to injury to the
property occasioned by high water, he removed to Mineral City, where he erected
an excellent steam saw mill, and for years conducted the largest lumber business
of any mill in the county. In 1883, he removed his mill fixtures one-half mile
west of Mineral City, where he has a new and commodious building built in the
shape of a "T," the main building being 28x60 feet, and the other 28x72. The
engine room attached is 12x30 feet, in which is a 50-horse-power engine and
boiler of the most improved kind. Besides his double circular saw, which has a
capacity of 10,000 feet per day, he has five smaller rotary saws. This is,
without exception, the best and most handily arranged saw mill in Greene County,
giving employment to about fifteen men, and causing an annual trade of $10,000
to be transacted. Besides this property, Mr. Faucett owns 200 acres of land in
Richland Township, and a part of the tract of land entered by his grandfather,
Col. Levi Fellows. To his marriage with Susan V. Ashton October 25, 1871, six
children have been born—Joseph A., Charles W., John M. (deceased), Wendell,
Frank and Hattie A. (deceased). Mr. Faucett served six months in the late war as
a private in Company C, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Indiana Volunteer
Infantry. He enlisted in February, 1865, and was discharged the following July.
In politics, he is a Republican, and he and wife belong to the Methodist
Episcopal Church.

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Richland 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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