Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Blakeman, John 1824 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JOHN BLAKEMAN.

    John Blakeman is an old settler of Winfield township, and is still residing
on the place which he bought over fifty years ago, when he was still struggling
to get a foothold in life in order to reach a substantial and comfortable
position in material circumstances. He has gained unusual success in his life
endeavors, has prospered by his constant industry, and among the citizens with
whom he has been associated so many years he bears a reputation for sterling
worth and personal integrity that are in themselves ample rewards for a long
career of daily toil and high purposes.

    Mr. Blakeman is a native of England and was born in old Warwickshire,
November 12, 1824, being a son of Job Blakeman, who lived and died in the same
shire and same house. John was reared and received a very little school training
in his native place and worked at day labor there until he was twenty-three
years old. He then came to America, and worked for monthly wages on a farm in
Wyandotte county, Ohio, until 1851, when he came to Lake county, Indiana, which
has been the central field of his endeavors ever since. He bought eighty acres
of the farm where he still resides, and gave his unstinted efforts to its
improvement and cultivation. He has added to this original tract until he now
owns two hundred and ten acres, and all the well-kept fences, barns and
countless other conveniences which mark the farm out as a model have been placed
there by himself. He has been a resident on the same place so long that no other
place could seem like home, and now that he has reached the advanced age of
eighty years he intends to spend the rest of his peaceful days on the homestead
which his early labors made and adorned.

    Mr. Blakeman is a believer in the political faith of the old Greenback
party, and he has always given a proper share of his attention to the affairs of
the world and his locality. He has been married twice. His first wife, whom he
married in Ohio, w-as Roxie L. Williams, and she died having been the mother of
five children, three of whom are living: Caroline, Olive and Charles. Mr.
Blakeman was married in 1866 to his present wife, Hannah J. Miller, and they had
one daughter, Amanda, who is the wife of Jacob Steinhilber. The latter is a
farmer, and manages Mr. Blakeman's farm.


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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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