Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Kepler, Peter December 16, 1809 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Jackson Township
p. 575 & 576

Peter Kepler was born Dec. 16, 1809, in Fredrick County, Md., and when six 
years of age moved with his parents to Green County, Pa. In 1820 he came to 
Wayne County, Ind., floating down the Ohio River to Cincinnati in a flat-boat, 
with his father, Peter Kepler, and family, including Mathias Kepler, his 
grandfather. His father rented the Treadway and Shortridge mill for a year, 
and during the year bought a farm of 160 acres which he cleared and 
cultivated, residing there until his death in 1847. His wife, whose maiden 
name was Elizabeth Shafer, was a native of Maryland, and died in Wayne County 
in 1835. They had seven children, four still living. Peter Kepler was married 
August 25, 1831, to Mary M., daughter of George and Elizabeth Rader, who came 
from Virginia to Indiana in 1830, in wagons. They reared a family of three 
children---Charlotte A., wife of Wesley Ellis, now deceased; John H. and 
George T. Mr. Kepler soon after marriage moved to a farm near Jacksonburg, 
where they resided five years when he sold his farm and purchased one near 
Green's Fork, residing on it several years hauling flour and pork from the 
farm to Cincinnati in wagons. He also bought the William Minnick farm where he 
lived until 1870 when he purchased property in East Germantown, where he still 
farms on a small scale. He has accumulated considerable property which he has 
divided among his children, reserving enough for himself and wife to live on. 
He has been a member of the Odd Fellow’s fraternity for many years. He attends 
the Lutheran church but belongs to no denomination.



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