Greene-Owen County IN Archives Biographies.....McConnell, Robert 1826 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   ROBERT McCONNELL, one of the farmers of Jefferson Township, Greene Co., Ind.,
is a native of Jefferson County, Ohio, and was born June 27, 1826. He is one of
nine children of Robert and Mary (Baker) McConnell, who settled with their
families in Owen County, Ind., in the year 1842, where they lived the balance of
their lives. Our subject received a common school education in the schools of
his time. Throughout life, farming has been his chief occupation, although while
a young man he worked for some time at the cooper's trade. Margaret J. Johnson
became his wife April 3, 1851. She is a native of Owen County, and one of the
family of David and Frances (McDaniel) Johnson, and her birth occurred July 31,
1831. Mr. McConnell now owns 190 acres of good farming land, well improved and
under good cultivation, and he raises considerable stock. They are both members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Oak Grove, near where they live, and always
do their share to support that and all other praiseworthy causes of their
community. They have been members of that congregation for thirty-five years,
about twenty of which Mr. McConnell has been a steward. As a Republican, he
takes a lively interest in the public affairs of the county in which he is an
esteemed citizen.

Additional Comments:
Jefferson 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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