Tipton-Wayne-Fulton County IN Archives Biographies.....Van Buskirk, Dillard 1818 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   DILLARD VAN BUSKIRK, farmer, is a native of Wayne County, Ind., and was born
May 1, 1818. He was reared in Henry County, Ind., where he attended the common
schools. He worked by the month at the carpenter's trade, and subsequently took
up contracting and building. In the spring of 1850, he removed to Tipton County
and has since made this his home, except two years spent in Fulton County. He
owns a farm of seventy-nine acres in Cicero Township, on which he moved in 1857.
He has since resided on this and has about sixty acres under cultivation. Mr.
Van Buskirk was married, December 16, 1841, in Henry County, Ind., to Miss
Rebecca Paul. They have had nine children-Mary E., Sarah A., Amanda, Samuel,
Emeretta, Helen D., Robert M., Thomas Benton (deceased) and George W.
(deceased). Joseph Van Buskirk, the father of our subject, was born in Kentucky
in 1794, and came to Indiana about 1815; he was a blacksmith and pursued his
trade for some time, and subsequently engaged in farming; he was married in
Wayne County, Ind., in 1816, to Miss Mollie Huff; he located in Tipton County
about 1844, and here resided until his death, which occurred in June, 1866.

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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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