Tipton-Howard County IN Archives Biographies.....Dennis, William A. 1833 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   WILLIAM A. DENNIS was born in North Carolina April 9, 1833, and is the son of
Jesse and Unity (Stanley) Dennis, natives of North Carolina, and of Scotch and
English descent. Jesse Dennis was a farmer and pioneer of Henry and Howard
Counties, also of Wisconsin, where he died in 1868, aged eighty years. W. A.
Dennis, at the age of seventeen, began life for himself. He at first worked as a
farm hand, and three years later bought a set of tinner's tools and opened a
shop. One year later, he removed to Greentown, where he conducted a tin shop one
year, after which he located in West Liberty and embarked as the village
blacksmith; he followed this trade two years, and then worked as section hand on
the P., C. & St. L. R. R. until 1861; he then worked at stave-making until
October, 1864, when he enlisted in the First Illinois Volunteer Light Artillery.
He was in battle at Mobile, Ala , and Montgomery, Ala. He was honorably
discharged in August, 1865, at Indianapolis. He then returned to Howard County,
and soon after engaged in the stave business, which he followed for ten years.
In 1875, he sold out and purchased his present home. He has 230 acres well
drained and improved, having good buildings and plenty of fruit. Mr. Dennis was
married, in 1851, to Miss Caroline Hendrickson, daughter of David and Ruth
Hendrickson, natives of Ohio. This union was blessed with seven children. Mrs.
Dennis died in the spring of 1870, and Mr. Dennis married his present wife the
following November-Miss Abbie Stewart, daughter of Robert and Sarah Stewart,
natives of Kentucky and pioneers of Tipton County. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis have five
children.

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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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