Tipton County IN Archives Biographies.....Vice, Drury B. 1841 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   DRURY B. VICE, Clerk of the Court and merchant, of the firm of Vice & Nutter,
was born in Bath County, Ky., July 19, 1841, and is the son of Martin and Jahazy
(Barber) Vice, natives of Kentucky and Virginia. Our subject worked on the farm
and received a limited education. At the age of twenty-one, he left his native
State and came North, locating at Windfall in April, 1862. He worked for three
years as head sawyer for James B. Fouch, and in the winter of 1862-63 attended
school. For four or five years following, he was his own preceptor. He enlisted
in November, 1863, in the Twelfth Battery of 200 men. He was stationed at
Nashville, Tenn., and participated in battle against Gen. Hood. He was honorably
discharged in the spring of 1865. He returned to Windfall and engaged in the
hotel business, together with mercantile pursuits. He subsequently engaged with
A. Dennis, under the firm name of Vice & Dennis, and later the firm became Vice,
Seright & Co. Mr. Vice afterward became successor to this firm, and continued in
business at intervals alone until February, 1879, when James W. Nutter became
owner of one-half the stock, and they have conducted a large business since.
They met with a large loss by fire, but rebuilt a large brick business room. Mr.
Vice is an active Republican, and was nominated for County Treasurer in 1880,
but was defeated by a small majority. He was renominated in 1882, and was
successful, and will enter upon the duties of his office August 17, 1883. Mr.
Vice was married, July 24, 1862, to Miss Anna E. Wall, of Wilmington, Ohio. She
was a teacher in Tipton County. She died in 1866, leaving two children-Eugenia
M. and E. Estella. Mr. Vice was a second time married, in May, 1867, to Miss
Elizabeth J. Nutter, of Windfall, Ind. They have one child-Nellie M. Mrs. Vice
is conducting the leading millinery store of Windfall. Mr. Vice has secured a
good farm of 140 acres, and he also owns fifty acres in Franklin County, Ky. He
is a Master Mason, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church.

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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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