Greene-Gibson County IN Archives Biographies.....Stough, Israel 1837 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   COL. ISRAEL STOUGH, a native of York County, Penn., was born January 28,
1829, a son of Charles and Catharine (Lauck) Stough, both of whom were born in
York County, Penn., the former January 4, 1800, and the latter November 15,
1815. Charles Stough followed the carpenter's trade for about fifty-four years;
was married in his native county in August, 1828, and there his wife died May
17, 1870 He is now living in Greene County, Ind., at the advanced age of
eighty-four years. Israel Stough, at the age of fourteen years, began serving an
apprenticeship at the tailor's trade in his native county, and when nineteen, he
started out as a journeyman tailor. For two years he was engaged in business for
himself at Brookville. Ind., but in 1852, went to Bucyrus, Ohio, where for a
short time he worked at his trade, afterward disposing of his stock and
operating a photograph gallery, both in Bucyrus and Gallion, Ohio. Having
accumulated some means, he sold out at the end of a year, and feeling the need
of a better education, entered Wittenburg College at Springfield, Ohio, where he
remained two years. In 1856 and 1857, he was employed as traveling salesman for
Hykes & Co., horticulturists, of Dayton, Ohio, his location being in
Mississippi. He afterward traveled in a like business through Virginia, for a
Rochester, N. Y., company, and through Kentucky for Hooker, Farley & Co.
Succeeding this, he was engaged in farming near Springfield, Ohio, until he
helped recruit Company F, of the Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, of which
he was selected Captain. He served in this capacity until September 23, 1863,
when he was discharged for disability arising from the effects of typhoid fever.
May 11, 1864, he was commissioned Colonel of the One Hundred and Fifty-third
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and for a time was stationed at Paw Paw, W. Va. Col.
Stough was a participant in the engagements at Laurel Point, on the South Branch
of the Potomac, Hancock, Md., and Old Town. He was mustered out of the service
at Camp Douglass, Ohio, September 9, 1864, and the same year located in Gibson
County, Ind., where he followed agricultural pursuits two years. He then moved
to Patoka, where he worked as a millwright and at engineering until his removal
to Owensburg, Greene County, in 1870, where for three years he was engaged in
milling. He then went to Bloomfield and erected the steam mills at that place,
which he operated until 1879, when he sold out and leased the mills at Lyons. In
1881, he purchased his present place, where he has since resided. Col. Stough is
a Republican in politics, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and F. &
A. M., and K. of P. fraternities. He was married at Brookville, Ind., June 3,
1851, to Mary C. Campbell, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 19, 1832.
Mrs. Stough's parents were John and Mary (Kemble) Campbell, the former born June
17, 1790, died October 13, 1863; the latter born in 1805, and died May 27, 1854.
Col, Stough and wife are parents of this family: Charles P., Ida K., Allie M.,
Nettie L. and David L., living, and Anna E., Dora C, Cora F., John F. and Jennie
B., deceased.

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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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