Newton Co., IN Bio


Newton County, Iroquois Township.  From A History of Warren, Benton,
Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.

   J.R. HERSHMAN, farmer and Township Trustee, was born in Benton
County, Indiana, in 1848, and is a son of Jacob and Mary (Edmondson)
Hershman, the former a native of Ohio, the latter of Tennessee.  Jacob
Hershman was an early settler of Hamilton County, Indiana, of which his
father was a pioneer. 
   J.R. Hershman passed his boyhood in White County, and remained at 
home until, in 1871, he married Miss Hannah, daughter of John Lyons,
a pioneer of Newton County, who died in 1863.  Mr. Hershman is a native
of Newton County.  For the first year after his marriage, Mr. Hershman
rented a farm, and afterward purchased eighty acres of his present 
home, to which he later added forty acres, the same constituting a fine
farm, containing comfortable buildings and desirable improvements.
   Mr. and Mrs. Hershman are the parents of two children--Ray and Lloyd.
Mr. Hershman is a member of the Republican party, and was elected 
Township Trustee, first in 1880, and again in 1882; he is a much
respected citizen.

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