Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Halsted, James Montgomery 1852 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JAMES MONTGOMERY HALSTED.

    James Montgomery Halsted, of section 11, Ross township, is a lifelong
resident of Lake county, and has found in agricultural pursuits the best
employment for his energies and a means of gaining a comfortable livelihood and
a substantial place in the world of material circumstances. He is a son of one
of the very earliest pioneers to the county, so that the Halsted family has
figured in the industrial and social life of Lake county from its earliest years
to the present, and, furthermore, have always retained the esteem and high
regard of their fellow citizens and business associates.

    Mr. Halsted was born in Ross township, September 12, 1852. His father, James
Halsted, was a native of Oneida county, New York, and about 1838 came out to
Lake county, Indiana, locating in a very sparsely settled community and playing
the part of the doughty pioneer in clearing the ground and making way for
civilization. He was a farmer all his life, and lived to the advanced age of
eighty-seven years. He was a member of and helped to build the Unitarian church
at Hobart. In politics he was a Democrat from the time of casting his first vote
to the last. His wife was Mary Woodhouse, who was born and reared in New York
city, a daughter of Edwin Woodhouse. She is still living at the age of
seventy-six, and has been the mother of six children, four sons and two
daughters, all of whom grew up and married, and five are living at the present
writing.

    Mr. James M. Halsted is the eldest son and the second child. He was reared
in Ross township, being educated in the public schools, and he remained at home
and assisted his parents until his marriage, in 1877. In the same year he
located on the farm where he has since made his home. This consists of one
hundred and fifty-seven acres of well improved and highly cultivated land, and
is devoted, under his skillful management, to general farming and stock-raising.
Mr. Halsted is also interested in public affairs, and in 1904 was the Democratic
candidate for the office of trustee of Ross township.

    He married, in 1877, Miss Emma Brown, the daughter of James and Jane Brown.
She was born in Michigan City, LaPorte county, Indiana, and was reared there.
Mr. and Mrs. Halsted have five children: Albert, Ura, Roy, Mamie and Ethel.


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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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