Tipton-Decatur County IN Archives Biographies.....Charles, Raphael 1837 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   RAPHAEL CHARLES, blacksmith, and manufacturer of wagons, carriages and
buggies, is a native of Wurtemberg, Germany, where he remained until his
seventeenth year, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York City in May,
1854. He at once came West, and located at Clarksburg, Decatur Co., Ind., where
he began learning his trade; he remained in that place until 1870, when he came
to Tipton. After his arrival here, he engaged for one year in farming, at the
end of which time he purchased a blacksmith and carriage shop and residence, and
again pursued his trade, which he has continued to follow ever since with
success. Besides the property above mentioned, he is the owner of a farm of
eighty acres, situated four miles west of Tipton, in a good state of
cultivation; he is an industrious, energetic citizen, and holds in high esteem
the Masonic fraternity, of which he is an honored member. His shops are situated
on the corner of East and Jefferson streets, near the Wabash Railroad, and are
always well stocked with specimens of his handiwork, in the shape of wagons and
buggies, which customers can purchase at a bargain. Mr. Charles was married in
Decatur County, Ind., February 11, 1861, to Miss Sarah Werner. They have a
family of three children, viz.: Antony, Sue Ellen and William.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.

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