Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Bothwell, Charles C. 1863 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

CHARLES C. BOTHWELL.

    Charles C. Bothwell, stock farmer, buyer and shipper, of Section 5, Ross
township, has spent his life of successful effort in Lake county, and is
numbered among the highly esteemed and prosperous citizens of the county. He has
given the best in him to his life work, which occounts [sic] for the results he
has gained, but he has also performed his share of public duties and
responsibilities as a friend and neighbor and a citizen of the community.

    Mr. Bothwell was born in Ross township, Lake county, June 11, 1852, being a
son of John A. and Nancy (Dutton) Bothwell, the former a native of Vermont and
the latter of New York. His father came to Lake county in 1839, thus being one
of the earliest settlers, and located first in St. John's township, later in
Ross township, and for about five years lived in Porter county, after which he
returned to Lake county and lived here till his death, at the advanced and
venerable age of eighty-three years. He followed farming all his life. He and
his wife are both buried in Ross township. They were the parents of eight
children, of whom Charles was the third.

    Mr. C. C. Bothwell was reared in Ross township with the exception of the
five years spent in Porter county, and he finished the education begun in the
common schools at the Crown Point high school. As soon as his school days were
ended he engaged in farming and the buying and shipping of cattle, which he has
made the chief lines of his pursuit ever since. He has a farm of two hundred and
eighty-three acres with excellent improvements, and besides the large crops of
hay and grain, he keeps and feeds a large number of cattle and hogs. He also
carries on a considerable dairy business.

    Mr. Bothwell is one of the influential Republicans of his township. He is a
member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was married, October 26, 1884, to
Miss Anettie Stone, who was born in Elkhart, Indiana, September 16, 1857. They
have had five children: Cora; Walter; Charles Benjamin; Lillie May; and Lottie,
who died in infancy. Mrs. Bothwell was reared and educated in Elkhart, Indiana,
and she was educated in the common schools and then a course in the Elkhart high
school, after which she obtained her teacher's certificate, having attended the
Valparaiso Normal and taken the teachers' course. She taught five terms in Lake
and Porter counties. Her father was a native of Vermont and was reared as an
agriculturist. He was well educated. He was a Republican in politics. He died at
the age of seventy-five years in Elkhart. Mother Stone was reared in Vermont and
she died in Elkhart county, aged about forty years. There are four of the Stone
family yet living: Benjamin Stone, a resident of Elkhart county: Amanda, widow
of Richard Berritt, of Hartline, Washington; Hubert Stone, a resident of
Elkhart: and Mrs. Bothwell. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Bothwell have received
good educational training. Cora received her diploma in the class of 1903, and
she was a student at the Valparaiso Normal School. She has taken music and also
elocution. Walter is in the fourth grade, Benjamin is in the eighth grade of the
public schools. He is a gifted penman and he is taking up the art of
photography. He also takes music. Lillie May is in the sixth grade, and has
taken music.


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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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