Lake Co. Indiana Biography

                                  JACOB BAUGHMAN

JACOB BAUGHMAN was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, October 21, 1829, 
and is one of the eight children of Jacob and Sarah (Ritter) Baughman, 
both natives of Pennsylvania.  They came to West Creek Township from 
Valparaiso in 1851, where both are buried.  Jacob Baughman, the 
subject of this sketch, was reared in Ohio, where he received a 
common school education, and moved with his parents to Valparaiso, 
Ind., in 1849, and to West Creek Township in 1851, where they built 
a house and began breaking the prairie; here he remained until 1852, 
when he took the "gold fever," and, with his brother and two others, 
went to California via New York and Panama.  From San Francisco he 
went to Dry Creek, and thence to Sierra County, and mined on Yuba 
River with good success; he then mined on Lost Hill and Bush Creek
for seven years, and in 1859 returned much better off than he left, 
and farmed in Kankakee County, Ill, until 1862, when he again went 
to Idaho by the overland route; they took the "Bridger route," then 
but an Indian trail, traveled for sixty days, and after much suffering, 
arrived in Virginia City, and began mining in Alder Gulch diggings. 
After two months, he went to his old haunts in Nevada County, Cal.  
In 1864, he went to Salt Lake, and thence to Idaho, where he 
prospected and found good diggings at Black Gulch; later he mined at 
Helena City and Silver Creek, and returned home via Fort Benton and 
Missouri River.  Mr. Baughman has a mining experience, perhaps not 
equaled by any man in Lake County; he had toiled, suffered, and been 
rewarded.  Until 1870, he farmed in West Creek Township, when he moved 
to Lowell, where he now resides.  Besides town property, he owns forty 
acres in Cedar Creek Township, 200 in West Creek Township, and 160 in 
Kankakee County, Ill.  On May 28, 1868, he married Miss Emma Dodge,
daughter of Henry L. and Mary L. (Plummer) Dodge, born November 18, 
1846, in Merrimack County, N.H.  To this union there has issued one 
son, Henry Lancaster, born March 21, 1869.  Mr. Baughman is one of 
the self-made and substantial men of Lake County, and a Republican 
in politics.

[from Counties of Porter and Lake, Indiana; Historical and 
Biographical. Batney, Chicago, 1882.
Biographical Sketches, Cedar Creek Township, p. 638]


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