Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Metcalf, Orzo 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

OZRO METCALF.

    Ozro Metcalf, now deceased, was born in Cataraugus county, New York, and
when sixteen years of age came to Lake county, Indiana, being among its early
settlers. He found that pioneer conditions existed here at the time of his
arrival, for much of the land was still unclaimed and uncultivated, and the
homes of the settlers were widely scattered, save that here and there a little
village had sprung up and population was more congested in those districts. Mr.
Metcalf came to Indiana with his uncle and settled in Eagle Creek township. In
1855 he removed to Cedar Creek township, where he was continuously engaged in
agricultural pursuits up to the time of his death, covering a period of
forty-five years.

    Mr. Metcalf was united in marriage to Miss Clarissa M. Haskin, who was born
in Geauga county, Ohio, May 22, 1837. Her father, Abile Haskin, was a native of
New York, and became one of the early settlers of the Buckeye state. His last
days, however, were passed in Michigan, where he died at the age of fifty-six
years. He had married Clarissa Custer, a native of New York, who died in Lake
county, Indiana, in her seventy-seventh year. They were the parents of six
children, three sons and three daughters, all of whom reached mature years,
while only two of the family are now living, the brother of Mrs. Metcalf being
Nichols Haskin, who resides in Kansas. Mrs. Metcalf was the youngest of these
children, and came to Lake county when but five years old, with her mother. Here
she has since lived. She was married in 1855, and this union has been blessed
with two daughters and two sons: Clarissa L. is now the wife of William
Northrup, their marriage being celebrated February, 14, 1878, and their children
are Loris; Morton O., who died October 29, 1889; Ora; Lulu: and John O. Byron
Metcalf is a resident-farmer of Center Creek township. Lottie is the deceased
wife of Fred M. Buckley. Ordel died in infancy.

    Politically Mr. Metcalf was a life-long Republican, and belonged to the
Methodist Episcopal church, exemplifying in his life its teachings and belief.
He was long a resident of Lake county, and was widely known as a man of
unfaltering honor and inflexible integrity. He died at the age of seventy-one
years, respected by all who knew him. Mrs. Metcalf still owns a farm of
thirty-two acres in Cedar Creek township, also another tract containing
forty-three acres. She likewise has fifteen acres at Lowell. In the management
of her property she displays good business ability, and it returns to her a
gratifying income. Her father was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church,
and in that faith she was reared. She has long been identified with the
denomination and is a most earnest Christian woman, whose many excellent traits
of character have won for her the esteem and friendship of all with whom she has
been associated.


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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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