Greene County IN Archives Biographies.....Templeton, W. W. 1836 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   W. W. TEMPLETON was born in Xenia, Ohio, July 28, 1836, and is a son of
William and Ruth (Beethe) Templeton. William Templeton was three times married,
his first wife bearing three children; his second two and his third wife, who
yet lives, four children. He was of Irish descent, settled in Greene County and
engaged in farming in Richland Township until his death March 28, 1878. W. W.
Templeton is the only survivor of his father's second marriage. His early life
was passed upon the home farm, and at eighteen years of age began doing for
himself. July 6, 1861, he became a private in Company C, Twenty-first Indiana
Heavy Artillery. His first military experience being with Butler around the
coast, rendezvousing on Ship Island; thence up the river to New Orleans, running
the fire from Forts Jackson and Phiiippi, and next participating in the campaign
against and reduction of Baton Rouge. After their return to New Orleans, they
were transferred to what is now Morgan City, and were the cause of the
destruction of the rebel gunboat "Cotton." Port Hudson was their next important
engagement, next participating in the expedition against Fort Monroe and Mobile.
He remained on garrison duty at Fort Morgan until his discharge, January, 1866.
Mr. Templeton was promoted from the ranks to First Sergeant, then to Second
Lieutenant and finally to First Lieutenant. Since the war, he has been engaged
almost constantly in saw-milling, and in 1878 erected his mill at Bloomfield,
where he is doing a good business. He operates a double circular saw with a
forty-horse power engine which has a capacity of 10,000 feet per day. Mr.
Templeton is a Freemason, a Republican and a member of the Christian Church. To
his marriage with L. A. Rosecrans, May 22, 1867, eight children have been born,
five of whom are yet living.

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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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