OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - BIO: LEMMON, Daniel F. (published 1889)
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BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL SOUVENIR
For the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings,
Scott and Washington, Indiana
Chicago Printing Company, 1889

        DANIEL F. LEMMON was born July 18, 1844, in Franklin township,
Harrison county, Ind. His father, John Lemmon, a native of Spencer county,
Ky., was born in 1804, and emigrated to Harrison county, Ind., in 1884. He
was four times elected as a member of the Indiana Legislature in 1852,
1854, 1862 and 1864, serving his county with ability; he also served as a
county commissioner, was a man of great public spirit and identified with
all enterprises that had in view the advancement of the material interests
of Harrison county. He died in September, 1881. Mr. Lemmon's mother,
Elizabeth  Johnson, was a native of Jefferson county, Ky., and both his
grandfathers were soldiers in the Revolutionary war that gave this country
independence of England, and were natives of Virginia.
        Daniel F. Lemmon is the eighth of ten children, was reared on a
farm, and educated in the schools of Harrison county and the city of
Louisville, Ky. He was county superintendent of schools from June, 1873 to
November, 1884, when he resigned to accept the office of county clerk, to
which he was elected in 1884.
        He was married in 1863 to Lucinda J. Sharp, daughter of Wm. D.M.
Sharp, of Harrison county. Six children have born to the marriage: Cora A.,
Lizzie, John W., Emma, Caddie and Brandt. Mr. Lemmon is an active member of
the I.O.O. F. at Corydon.




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