BIO:  MAIN, Joseph, s/o Johnson C. & Sarah (Wilson) Main

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

MAIN   WILSON   HAMILTON   SHOULDERS   BLACK   SULLIVAN		

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Dubois County, Jefferson Twp, page 727

JOSEPH MAIN, who is a son of Johnson C. and Sarah (Wilson) Main, was born
June 28, 1829, in Dubois County, Ind., and is the eldest of ten children.
The parents were natives of Pennsylvania and Kentucky, and came to Indiana
when quite young.  They married and lived near Huntingburgh, where the
father, who was a United Brethren minister, died in 1842.  The mother's death 
occurred December 22, 1884, aged seventy-six years.  Our subject passed his
boyhood on a farm and received but little schooling.  He has been married
three times.  His first wife, Abigail Hamilton, bearing one son, George
Samuel (deceased), died in 1852; his second, Sarah Shoulders, bore four
children, three now living; Mary E., Rachael J. and Sarah C.  This wife died
in 1859.  He then married Mrs. Elizabeth (Black) Sullivan, the result of this
union being nine children, eight now living; Martha Anne (deceased), 
Precious, William T., Jeremiah, Simon P., Joseph M., John H.L., Nancy L. and
Samuel W.  This wife died in 1880.  Joseph, our subject, started in life a
poor boy, but by industry he now owns 120 acres of good land.  He is a 
Mason and a Democrat.  His grandfather came to this State in very early times
and he and family were obliged to protect themselves from the Indians by
means of a fort.
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