BIO:  ESKRIDGE, E.R., s/o Joseph W. & Fannie (Robinson) Eskridge

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

ESKRIDGE   ROBINSON   SMYTH   NEALE	

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886

Daviess County, Washington Twp., page 762

E.R. ESKRIDGE, harness and saddle-maker of Washington, Ind., was born in 
Kentucky January 17, 1829.  He was the third of ten children born to Joseph
W. and Fannie (Robinson) Eskridge, who were natives of Virginia, but were
raised in Kentucky.  Our subject worked on the farm and at the tanner's
trade until he was eighteen years old.  His father died about this time and
he remained with his mother until twenty-three years of age, and supported
the family during that time.  He then learned the saddler's trade, but was
not devoted to any particular business for about three years.  In 1855 he 
came to Washington, Ind., where he worked at this trade or any labor that
presented itself.  December 7, 1856, the nuptials of his marriage to Sarah
M. Smyth were celebrated, and some time later he opened a shop of his own
at Edwardsport, but remained there but a short time.  In December, 1858, he
began working at his trade in Washington, where he continued util January,
1856, when he sold his stock and residence and went to Burlington, Iowa, and
thence to Oregon.  He was absent about sixteen months looking for a location,
but at last returned to Washington, Ind., where he continued the harness
and saddlery trade.  He keeps a fine stock of goods and has been very success-
ful in his business enterprises.  He is a member of the I.O.O.F., and
politically has been a Democrat since the extinction of the Whig party.  He
cast his first presidential vote for Winfield Scott.  He is one of the
prominent men of the county and is highly respected as an honorable and
upright citizen.  To his marriage five children were born, three of whom are
living:  Fannie M. (wife of J.T. Neale), Samuel C. and Lulu.
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