Tipton-Hamilton County IN Archives Biographies.....Teal, Charles 1840 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   CHARLES TEAL, farmer, is a native of Sweden, where he was born December 5,
1840. He is the son of Charles G. Teal, who was born in Sweden in 1803 and
remained in his native country until 1852, when he emigrated to America, settled
in Tipton County, Ind., bought a small farm, and resided there the remainder of
his life. During his residence in Sweden, he served for many years in her
standing army, and saw a great deal of military service. He was married in his
native land, at the age of twenty-three, to Miss Mary C. Thorman, and by her was
the father of three children, of whom our subject is the eldest. His death,
caused by an accident while engaged in raising a barn, occurred May 19, 1866.
His widow died September, 1879. Charles, the subject of this sketch, grew to
manhood on a farm, and then engaged in tilling the soil of rented land. He is
now the owner of 178 acres of land in Cicero Township, Tipton County, and eighty
acres in Jackson Township, Hamilton County. He has 216 acres under cultivation,
well drained by tile drains at a cost of $1,200. He has a good residence, a
commodious barn, 36x74 feet, and a straw barn 31x88 feet, a windmill for
watering hia stock, and $5,000 worth of the most improved agricultural
implements. The fertility of the soil of his land is sufficient to enable it to
produce from forty to sixty bushels of corn and twenty bushels of wheat to the
acre. Altogether Mr. Teal's farm is the best equipped, and one of the most
desirable in the borders of Tipton Coanty. During the winter, he manufactures a
great amount of barrel heading, using two ten horse-power portable threshing
engines to run the machinery. Besides this, he owns two sets of French buhrs,
with which he grinds the feed for his stock, arid also for the stock of many of
his neighbors. He was married, August 31, 1862, in this county, to Miss
Elizabeth Sumner. They have three sons- Franklin, William and Jesse. Mr. Teal is
a member of the I. O. O. F. Politically, he is of the Republican persuasion. He
is one of the most enterprising and most esteemed men in the county.

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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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