Tipton-Boone-Marion County IN Archives Biographies.....McCorkill, William F. 1832 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   WILLIAM F. McCORKILL, a native of Lexington, Ky., was born August 19, 1832.
His father, Bryson McCorkill, removed to Johnson County in 1837, and in 1865
located in Hancock County, Ind., where his death occurred April 7, 1865. The
subject of this sketch removed to Boone County, and subsequently engaged in
farming in Marion County. In October, 1872, he removed to Tipton County and
purchased a farm of forty acres in Cicero Township, and cleared thirty-five
acres. In 1881, he traded this for eighty acres in Section 35 of the same
township. He now has seventy-five acres under cultivation, well drained with
tiling, and deals in both stock and grain. Mr. McCorkill was married in Johnson
County, Ind., to Miss Mary E. Rominger. They have five children -Thomas S.,
Cornelius B., James L., Rozaly and Charles F. Mr. McCorkill enlisted in April,
1864, in Company E, Ninth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served nearly
two years; he was assigned to the Fourth Army Corps, Second and Third Brigades.
He is a Democrat in politics, and a member of the G. A. R.

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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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