Tipton-Henry County IN Archives Biographies.....Goar, Henry 1821 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   HENRY GOAR, one of the men prominently identified with Tipton County history,
was born in Virginia November 16, 1821, where he resided until he was seventeen
years of age, when, in company with his father, James Goar, he removed to Henry
County, Ind., where they resided until 1840, when they removed to Jefferson
Township, Tipton County. At the time of his removal to Jefferson Township, there
were but few families in it, John D. Smith, who had come the year previous, and
a few others, being all that were settled there. His father purchased 160 acres
of timbered land, and with the assistance of our subject and his brother Matt,
he soon had fifty acres under cultivation. In 1847, he sold this farm and
purchased a small farm in Section 27, Cicero Township, where he resided until
his death, which occurred on April 13, 1855. In 1846, Henry Goar pre-empted 160
acres of land. In 1848, he located on it and commenced clearing up a farm. The
first year he cleared six acres and planted it in corn; he afterward cleared
about seven acres annually for several years; he now has 122 acres of very
productive land under cultivation. He devotes his attention to the cultivation
of the soil rather than the raising of stock. He has, for the past eighteen
years, averaged about sixteen bushels of wheat and at least fifty bushels of
corn to the acre, and at times has raised as high as 100 bushels of corn and
thirty-seven and a half bushels of wheat to the acre. His farm is well supplied
with buildings and improved machinery. Mr. Goar was married in Henry County,
Ind., May 27,1844, to Miss Martha E. Smith; they have had nine children, namely,
James J., Isaac N., Mary E., Mattie A., Sarah E., Nancy C., Emma, Charles,
Joseph M. Politically, Mr. Goar is a Greenbacker, and has always been prominent
in the counsels of that party.

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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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