Lake-Porter County IN Archives Biographies.....Black, John 1832 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JOHN BLACK.

    John Black, a retired farmer and an old settler of Lake county, now residing
in Crown Point, has had a career to which he may point with justifiable pride.
He landed, a stranger, in America fifty years ago, fifty dollars in debt, and
with only a vigorous manhood and determined will for capital. Nearly all these
subsequent years have been spent in Lake county, and his early labors caused
steady material progress until he is now the owner of one of the best farming
estates of the county, besides much other property and business interests. He is
an ex-county commissioner and in other ways has shown his public-spirited
interest in the development and welfare of the county where he has so long made
his home and built his own substantial and prosperous career.

    Mr. Black was born in Saxony, Germany, July 24, 1832, and lived there the
first twenty-two years of his life. He attended the public schools during the
required period to fourteen years of age, and the other years spent in the
fatherland were devoted to farm work, where frugalness and thrift in management
were virtues so inculcated as to be a permanent part of his character and to be
responsible for much of his future success. He came to America in 1854. After a
short time spent in Buffalo, New York, he came to Chicago and at Blue Island did
railroad work for the Grand Trunk for about a year and a half. He was in Porter
county, Indiana, for about six months, and then located permanently in Lake
county, where he began his career by working by the month. After getting
considerable saved up he bought land in Eagle Creek township, and subsequent
additions and continued prosperity have caused his landed possessions to swell
to the amount of five hundred and eighty acres. He was a resident of Eagle Creek
township until 1894, in which year he retired and moved into Crown Point, where
he built his present fine residence. He is a director of the Commercial Bank of
Crown Point, and owns considerable property in the city.

    Mr. Black has never voted for any but Republican principles and candidates,
and he has taken as much interest in public matters as his busy life would
permit. He was elected and filled the office of county commissioner for five
years, and his administration was so satisfactory that he might have retained
the office longer had he been willing to serve. He is a member of the Lutheran
church.

    Mr. Black was married in 1859 to Miss Caroline Beaders, and they have seven
children living: Henry, William, Anna, Ella, Eddie, Hannah and John.



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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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