Tipton-Howard-Decatur County IN Archives Biographies.....Doggett, Arthur D. 1819 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   ARTHUR D. DOGGETT was born in Bath County, Ky., August 10, 1819, and is the
second son of Henry and Nancy (Smith) Doggett, natives of Virginia, and of
English and German descent. Henry Doggett was a school teacher by profession,
and died in Decatur County, Ind., in 1836, aged fifty years; his wife lived to
be eighty-seven years of age. Arthur D. Doggett received a good education; at
the age of twenty-four, he began life for himself on rented land, and in the
fall of 1849 located three and one-half miles northeast of Kokomo; three years
later, he sold this farm and made a purchase of school land, where the town of
Windfall now stands; he remained here until 1859; experienced all the privations
of a new country. In the meantime, he was a large contractor on building
railroads, having taken his first contract on the I., P. & C. R. R., from Kokomo
to Cassville; he then took a contract for grubbing, clearing and grading fifty
miles on the C, C. & I. C, amounting to about $100,000; the company consisted of
Foster, Doggett, Ashley and Bohan. In 1859, Mr. Doggett exchanged his property
in Windfall for land in Decatur County, where he pursued the occupation of
farming until 1876. He then removed to Howard County, and purchased 100 acres
five miles south of Kokomo; here he farmed until 1882 when he sold, and located
on the farm where he now resides; he has 101 acres of the best land in the
county; he was at one time worth about $20,000, but has assisted his children
with this. Mr. Doggett was married in 1843 to Miss Elizabeth Frakes, of Rush
County; she died in 1847, leaving three sons- Henry, David and Arthur; he next
married Sarah Martin, who died in 1876, leaving two sons-Philip M. and Ralph; he
married his third wife in 1877, Miss Sarah A. Hazel, who died in 1878, leaving
two children- Byron E. and Blanch Edith; Mrs. Sarah A. Doggett was a fine
artist; Mr. Doggett was last married in 1881, to Hester A. Tolbot, of Kokomo;
she was a teacher for a number of years. Mr. and Mrs. Doggett are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. In early life he was a Whig, later belonged to the
Republican party, and in 1880 joined the National party; he is a strong
temperance man.

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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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