Sullivan-Jennings County IN Archives Biographies.....Bland, Richard A. 1815 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   RICHARD A. BLAND was born and reared a farmers boy. His native State was
Kentucky, where he was born January 6, 1815, and was educated in Jennings
County, Ind., where his parents moved in about 1823. When of age, he engaged in
cabinet making at Carlisle, Sullivan County, and two years afterward opened a
shop of his own at New Lebanon, which he conducted until 1845, when he located
in Sullivan, but the following year returned to New Lebanon, and about a year
later began building flatboats, for which there was great demand. Three years
later he engaged in saw-milling, and in 1855 bought a farm of ninety-one acres
three miles from New Lebanon. After occupying this three years, he sold out and
bought another of 110 acres east of New Lebanon, upon which he lived and labored
until 1877, when he moved to the county seat, and is now retired. In 1835, he
married Eusebia Mason, who died April 5, 1875, leaving four children—Nancy.
William H., Thomas F. and Samantha. The deceased are James M., Marion, Sarah M.,
Richard A. and Justus D. December 19, 1877, he married his present wife, Mrs.
Millie A. Allen. His four children are pleasantly located near him. He has been
a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1837; is a Republican. His
parents were Moses and Nancy (Boze) Bland, natives of Virginia.

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Hamilton Township

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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