DARKE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: CORTNER, WASHINGTON (A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894)
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A PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF DELAWARE AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES, IND.
A.W. Bowen & Co., 1894  - Page 1097-1098

        WASHINGTON CORTNER, a successful farmer and stock raiser, of Monroe
township, Randolph county, Ind., comes from the Buckeye state, having been
born in Darke county, January 31, 1839. He was reared on his father's farm
and remained at home until his marriage, April 4, 1860, to Huldah, daughter
of William and Mary A. (Dungan) Bradrick, who were married February 28,
1836, and had born to them a family of ten children, named as follows:
Elizabeth, William R., Catherine, Huldah, Benjamin F., Amanda A., Mary,
Mahlon, Sylvester M. and John W. The mother of these bade farewell to earth
March 2, 1887, and her mortal remains lie interred in the Macksville
cemetery. The aged father survives, and, as did his deceased wife, enjoys
the consolation of an abiding faith in the tenets of the Methodist church.
        After his marriage, Washington Cortner resided on a farm in Darke
county, Ohio, for three years, and then came to Monroe township, where he
owned an eighty-acre farm, all wooded. Here he built his cabin, cleared off
the timber, and wrought out from the wilderness a model farm, and after a
residence of ten years in the original and primitive cabin erected a fine
frame dwelling and added to his farm 110 acres, and added again, until he
now owns 430 acres, all well improved, and all the result of his industry
and enterprise, he having had only $500 on the start. His education in
early life was somewhat limited, but he was quick to learn and was enabled,
in his early days, to teach two terms of school, and this disciplinarian
process has given him great aid in attaining his present comfortable
condition. In addition to his farming, he largely handles live stock,
making a specialty of thoroughbred cattle. He also is a stockholder in the
Elkhorn Gas & Oil company. He has been munificent in his contributions to
school and church enterprises, having contributed $100 to the Meriom
college, and equally large sums to the various church edifices of his
township and to the pikes. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Cortner were
named as follows: Noah F., deceased; Ezra L.; Alice Jane, wife of Henry
Courtner; William H.; Rosella, wife of Wm. Bosworth; Jesse and Herbert.


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