BIO;  DAYHOFF, George W. & Rufus, s/o Elias

Submitted by:  ivie@tima.com   (Diana Flynn)

DAYHOFF,  THOMAS,   GOODALE,   JOHNSTON,   PAGE,   ANDERSON

"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.

GREENE CO., IN.
SMITH TWP.
PAGE 441
GEORGE W. DAYHOFF, farmer, P. O. Worthington.  Among the
early pioneers of Greene County, Ind., was Elias Dayhoff, who was born
December 1, 1799, in the State of Kentucky.  In 1826, Mary Thomas became
his wife, and in 1827 he and wife emigrated to this county, and settled in
Smith Township, where Mr. Dayhoff entered 160 acres of Government land.  He
continued adding to this until at one time he owned about 1,000 acres.  His
first wife dying in 1832, he married Eleanor H. Goodale in 1834, and
together they lived happily many years.  Mr. Dayhoff took a very active
part in all the public doings of the day, having served as Township Trustee
and Justice of the Peace, besides being the candidate of his
party--Republican--for the State Legislature in 1862.  He was a member of
the Presbyterian Church, and a man honored and esteemed for his private
worth and purity of heart.  He died April 13,1883, having lived a life of
over eighty-three years of usefulness.  George W. Dayhoff, subject of this
sketch, was born in the month of May, 1835, the eldest of his father's
second marriage.  He was raised and educated in Greene County, and August
8, 1862, enlisted in his country's cause in Company H, Seventy-first
Indiana Volunteer Infantry.  He served through the battles of Richmond and
Nashville, besides several lesser engagements, and was a brave and
efficient soldier.  January 5, 1863, he married Mary A. Johnston, who died
September 12, 1875, after bearing a family of six children,  four of whom
are yet living.  For a second wife, Mr. Dayhoff married
Mary E. Page, of Worthington.  Mr. Dayhoff is one of the well-to-do
farmers of Smith Township, owning eighty acres of good land.  He
cast his first vote for John C. Fremont in 1856, and since then has
been a Republican in politics.

PAGE 441
RUFUS DAYHOFF, farmer, P. O. Worthington, was born March
26, 1838, the third son of Elias and Eleanor H. (Goodale) Dayhoff,
appropriate mention of whom is made in the biography of George
W. Dayhoff.  Rufus was raised a farmer, secured a fair education
from the public schools of that day, and May 26, 1873, he was
united in marriage with Mary E. Anderson.  After living some over
three years in Smith Township, engaged in farming after his marriage, Mr.
Dayhoff, in 1877, moved to Wilson County, Tex., subsequently removing to
near San Antonio, in Barr County.  After being a resident of the Lone Star
State upward of five years, he returned to his former home in Indiana,
where he now resides, the owner of forty acres near the old homestead.  He
is a Republican in politics, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and he and family are well and favorably known throughout the township.


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