BIO:  RUSSELL E. MINTER, S/O WM. MINTER-SHELBYVILLE, KY

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Contributed by: Diana Flynn "ivie@tima.com"
Date: Sunday, July 12, 1998 
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MINTER,   PINKSTON

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO.,  PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA
GILL TWP.
PAGE 785

RUSSELL E. MINTER is a native of this county (Sullivan), and
was born March 25, 1848, eldest of four children born to
William and Melinda (Pinkston) Minter.  William Minter,
the father of our subject, was born in Shelbyville, Ky., August
10, 1818, and at the age of sixteen years went to Missouri,
and from there, at the age of eighteen, went to Texas;  served
in the Texan army fourteen months, and then returned to
Missouri, where he was engaged in buying horses for the
Government.  In 1842, he came to Terre Haute, where he
was engaged in buying corn, and afterward in driving stage.
November 12, 1845, his marriage occurred, he then returning
to Missouri, but after two years came back to the vicinity of
where his son now lives.  He was successful in farming, owning
about seven hundred acres of land here, and 960 acres in Texas.
March 15, 1882, his team ran away with him and causing such
injuries as to produce death two days later.  To his children,
Russell and his sister, and his wife, the estate was left, which
our subject is now managing.  Mr. Minter is a Democrat.

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