Newton Co., IN Biography

Newton County, Washington Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper and Newton Counties, 1883.

   EPHRAIM BRIDGEMAN, son of Michael and Mary Bridgeman, was born
November 19, 1818, in Harrison County, Indiana, where his parents were
early settlers.  When our subject was seven years of age, his father
moved to Fountain County, Indiana, lived there about four years, then
went to Logansport, then to Rochester, and then to Carroll County,
where Ephraim cleared land by the acre.  He saved some money, and when
twenty-one years of age bought forty acres of land in Pulaski County,
which he still owns.
   On June 21, 1840, he married Elizabeth Exly, of Butler County, Ohio,
and two children were born to them--John (who was a soldier in Company
B, Fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry_, and Mary A. (now the wife
of Phillip Brown).  Mr. Bridgeman's wife died August 13, 1844; she was
a member of the United Brethren Church.
   On April 16, 1846, he married Joanna Doty, of Warren County, Indiana.
They have had the following children:  Joseph Otterbein (who was a
soldier in Company I, One Hundred and Twenty-eight Indiana Infantry
Volunteers), Ephraim, David W., Levi (deceased), Michael (deceased),
Sarah C. (deceased), Daniel Wainscot and George E.
   Soon after his marriage, in 1840, he bought eighty acres in Section
19, Washington Township, Jasper (now Newton) County.  He improved this
land and now owns 280 acres, as fine a farm as there is in the township.
In 1869, Mr. Bridgeman was elected Township Trustee.  Politically, he is
a Republican.  Since 1843, he has been a member of the United Brethren
Church, and is a member of the Annual Conference.  Of this church he
has been Steward, Trustee, Class Leader; of its Sabbath School, a 
teacher and Superintendent.


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