Lake-Switzerland County IN Archives Biographies.....Wason, T. A. 1845 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

T. A. WASON.

    T. A. Wason is one of the prosperous farmers and stockmen of West Creek
township, and during the nearly sixty years since he came into the world he has
gained a most creditable success, has lived uprightly and on good terms with his
fellow men, and while industriously and faithfully performing the duties of life
he has also enjoyed the comforts and contentment of a worthily lived career.

    He was born at Vevay, in Switzerland county, Indiana, September 23, 1845,
and is the eldest and the only one surviving of the three children born to Hiram
and Elizabeth (Abbott) Wason. His parents both passed away in Lake county in the
same year, 1898. His father was born in Hillsboro county, New Hampshire, and was
educated for the Presbyterian ministry. He was the first pastor of the Lake
Prairie Presbyterian church in West Creek township. He was a strong Republican,
and voted for the first presidential candidate of that party. His wife was also
a native of the same locality of New Hampshire.

    Mr. T. A. Wason came with his parents to Lake county in 1857, his father
purchasing eighty acres of land in West Creek township. He was educated in the
common schools of the township, and was a student in Wabash College in
Crawfordsville for three years. He taught for two winters in West Creek
township, and also passed one season in the employ of the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois Railroad Company. He entered into partnership with his father in
farming and stock-raising, and at the present time he owns two hundred and sixty
acres of the fine land of Lake county. In 1899 he erected a beautiful brick
residence on his estate, one that is a credit to his individual enterprise and
to the entire township.

    Mr. Wason has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Julia Brannan, and
they had one daughter, Julia B., who resides at home, and who has completed the
common school course and was a student in the high school at Crown Point. Mr.
Wason was bereaved of his first wife, July 17, 1876, and was afterward married
to Miss Emma S. Peach, who was born in New Hampshire but was reared in Lake
county. She was a successful teacher in Eagle Creek township for a number of
years. To this marriage have been born three children: Henry Boyd has finished
the eighth grade and is about to take up high school work, and he is very fond
of literature as well as of athletics; Isabelle is also ready for high school
and is also a student of instrumental music; Faith is in the seventh grade. Mrs.
Wason, the mother of these children, died in May, 1894. She was a lover of home
and a good and faithful wife, and her memory is still sacred in the hearts of
those who were closest in friendship and ties of kindred. She was a member of
the Lake Prairie Presbyterian church.

    Mr. Wason is a stanch Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for
General Grant. He has had no time to accept public or official responsibilities,
as his business interests have absorbed all his time. He affiliates with Colfax
Lodge No. 378, of the Masons, at Lowell, and is also a member of the lodge of
the Knights of Pythias at the same place. He and his family are all members of
the Presbyterian church in West Creek township. He has traveled about the
country a good deal, and has visited both the New England states and the
northwest.


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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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