Greene-Daviess County IN Archives Biographies.....Killian, William H. 1837 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   WILLIAM H. KILLIAN was born February 1, 1837, in Daviess County, Ind. He is
one of five children born to Wiley and Rosanna (Wesner) Killian. On the 7th of
September, 1856, he was married to Mary J. Slinkard, of Greene County, Ind.
Later the same year, Mr. Killian settled in Greene County, where he has lived in
Cass Township ever since. He has followed farming mostly and with good success.
In 1871, he began doing a general merchandise business at Newberry, and for
about five years did a prosperous trade, but the panic of 1873, and high water
of 1875, proved rather too heavy adverse financial tides to be withstood, and he
then abandoned merchandising. Since then, fortune has better favored him, and he
is again paying attention to farming and to running a saw mill, which he owns in
partnership with his son. Mr. Killian is a member of the Lutheran Church and
Sunday School, and is the main support of these institutions at Newberry. Mr.
and Mrs. Killian have a family of eight children—Waldren D., Laura C, Rosanna
S., Maggie S., Martha J., Gracie L., Edith V. and Louis H. For years Mr. Killian
has taken an active part in all matters pertaining to his township, and has been
its Trustee for three years, and is at present a Justice of the Peace.

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Cass 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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