BIO:  VANMETER, Joseph B., s/o Nathaniel & Catharine (Razor) Vanmeter

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

VANMETER   RAZOR   MARTINDALE

"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. CENTER TWP. PAGE 439

JOSEPH B. VANMETER, a native Hoosier, was born in Greene County in 1852, and 
is the eldest of four chidren born to the union of Nathaniel and Catharine 
(Razor) Vanmeter, who were natives of Kentucky, removing to Indiana in about 
1843.  He was raised on a farm until sixteen years of age, when he began 
learning the blacksmith's trade which was his occupation until 1883.  In this
year he embarked in the drug and grocery trade at Cincinnati, and although 
yet new in the business is rapidly acquiring a comfortable traffic.  He is 
possessed of energy and determination, and these qualites, coupled with 
honesty and a desire to please, will undoubtedly make him one of the county's
most reliable and successful men.  Miss Agnes Martindale became his wife in 
the year 1874, and three of their five children are yet living--Fleming, 
Nancy and Cary J. Mr. Vanmeter is a Democrat in politics; Mrs. Vanmeter 
belongs to the Baptist Church.
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