ASHTABULA COUNTY OHIO - BIO: CASE, A.P. & C.M. (published 1882)

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1882 HISTORY OF LA GRANGE COUNTY INDIANA
F.A. Battey & Co., 1882

        A.P. CASE is living in the first frame house built in the township
and upon the farm entered by him in 1836. In company with his uncle, David
Randall, he left Ashtabula County, Ohio, in the spring of 1833, and
traveled across the country on foot to St. Joseph County, Mich., west of
Sturgis, where they soon earned enough to enter the eighty acres of land,
in 1836, on Sections 7 and 18, where, in the spring of 1837, subject, with
his mother, Anna (Randall) Case, and brother Zopher, located, and for many
years endured the hardships of pioneer life. Zopher Cases, father of the
subject, who ranked as Major in the war of 1812, came from Connecticut at
an early day, and settled in Ashtabula County, Ohio, where he died in 1822,
leaving a wife and four small children, among whom was our subject, who was
born in Ashtabula County, Ohio, October 6, 1812. After coming to this
county, his mother kept house for until he was married, December 4, 1841,
to Miss Elsie Hill, daughter of Aaron and Permelia (Winston) Hill, natives
of new Jersey. They are parents of ten children -Zopher P., Randall P.,
Daniel A. (deceased), Elizabeth C., Daniel A., Jr., Billings B., Elsie A.,
Perry A., Mary E. and Isa A.

        C.M. CASE is a native of this county, where he was born in Johnson
Township, October 8, 1850. His parents were Zopher and Nancy (Highbargin)
Case, natives of Ohio. Zopher Case, with his brother, A.P. Case, and
mother, came to this township in 1837, but subsequently located in Johnson
Township, where he is yet living. The subject, when twenty years of age,
commenced teaching school, and for three years alternated that with farm
labor, during their respective seasons. In 1873, he bought forty acres of
land in Section 17, and his father gave him eighty acres adjoining. Of
this, he sold eighty acres for $3,000 and purchased his present farm, that
ranks among the best in the township in improvements and appearance. It
consists of one hundred acres, twenty of which were presented to his wife
by her father. For the remaining acres he paid $5,000. The proceeds of this
farm for the year 1879 were $2,500; 1880, $2,800; and 1881, $2,000. Mr.
Case also raises some of the best blooded stock in the county. Although
quite a young man, he is on the road to prosperity and belongs to a
representative family. He was married to Miss Mary A. Newnam March 17,
1874. She was born in this township October 17, 1855, and is the daughter
of Nicholas B. and Nancy (Cochran) Newnam. They were among the early
settlers here, coming in 1835, and lived here until within the last year,
when they moved to Kendallville.


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