Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Marine, Billy February 6, 1819 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

New Garden Township
p. 660 & 661

Billy Marine, farmer and stock-raiser, New Garden Township, Wayne Co., Ind., 
was born in the township Feb. 6, 1819, the youngest of eight children of 
Jonathan and Hannah (Moorman) Marine. His parents were among the earliest 
settlers or the county, coming here when the country was a wilderness infested 
with Indians and wild animals. He was reared on the frontier farm and was 
obliged to forego the privileges of more than a practical education, his 
schooling being limited to the subscription school in the primitive log school-
house. When he was about eight years of age, June 6, 1827, his father died, 
leaving a widow with a large family on a frontier farm but partially improved. 
As the older children advanced in years they left home, and the care of the 
mother devolved on him, a duty he gladly performed till her death. On reaching 
his majority he purchased the interests of the other heirs in the old 
homestead and has always made it his home, following diligently the avocation 
of a farmer. He is clearly a self-made man. Starting in life with a very 
little capital he has, by his own good management, industry and indomitable 
perseverance accumulated a large property. His landed estate consists of 268 
acres of the best land in the township, all well improved and under a high 
state of cultivation. Born on the old homestead, he has now made it his home 
for a period of sixty-five years and has witnessed its growth from an 
uncleared forest to its present rank among the best farms in the county. His 
family are surrounded with all the comforts of life; his children have had the 
benefit of a good education, and he, in his declining years, can look back and 
contemplate with pleasure a well-spent life. He has always been a public 
spirited man, giving liberally of his time and means for the advancement of 
all public interests. Benevolent causes have always had his ready support, and 
the churches and schools of the township are due in a great measure to his 
liberality. Honest and honorable in the superlative degree, he has gained, as 
he deserves, the respect and confidence or the entire county. A native of the 
county, it is only natural that he should, as he does, desire its upbuilding, 
and his greatest work, outside his own household, has been toward the 
furtherance of the county's welfare. Mr. Marine was married Nov. 8, 1860, to 
Hannah E. Graves, daughter of William Graves, and a native of Grant County, 
Ind. Her parents were natives of Tennessee. To Mr. and Mrs. Marine have been 
born three sons---Oliver M., Orlando and Charles.

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