BIO:  RIDGWAY, William J., s/o Benjamin & Catharine (Trunnel) Ridgway

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

RIDGWAY   TRUNNEL   BICKNELL

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

Knox County, Widner Twp., page 530

WILLIAM J. RIDGWAY is a native of the "Hoosier State", born in Sullivan
County, January 20, 1831, son of Benjamin and Catharine (Trunnel) Ridgway,
natives of the "Blue-grass State".  The father was born in 1801, and after
attaining his majority came to Indiana.  The mother was of Scotch and German
descent, and bore her husband eight children, our subject being the third.
He secured a common school education, and after farming for himself two
years was married, March 8, 1855, to Malinda Bicknell.  He then farmed on
the old place two years, and then purchased eighty acres of land two miles 
east of Oaktown, on which he lived until 1880, when he sold out and bought
fifty acres where he now lives.  He rears considerable stock and is doing
quite well financially.  He and wife became the parents of these children:
Theresa, Benjamin, John T., Willis, Hammet and Arean.  Mr. Ridgway is a
Democrat politically and cast his first vote for Buchanan.  His wife has 
been a member of the Christian Church for fifteen years.
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