DARKE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: ELSTON, WILLIAM C. (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 1359-1360

        WILLIAM C. ELSTON, a prominent citizen and business man of Union
City, Ind., was born in Darke county, Ohio, May 19, 1839, and was reared on
a farm in his native county. He attended the common schools until fifteen
years of age, and later on was a student for two years at Liber college.
After leaving college he taught school and worked on the home farm until
twenty-one years old, and then turned his attention to agriculture on his
own account, having a tract of 280 acres, 210 acres of which were improved.
In the latter part of 1860, he began to ship live stock to the eastern
markets -cattle and hogs, but chiefly the latter -and so continued in Darke
county Ohio, until 1890, when he came to Indiana and took up his residence
in Union City, bought an interest in the Union City Carriage works, and has
since been president and treasurer of the company. Mr. Elston had also
become interested in the Second National bank of Greenville, Ohio, before
he left Darke county, was one of its
 original stockholders, and for five years has been one of its leading
directors.
        Mr. Elston was most happily married, in 1860, to Miss Elizabeth,
the amiable daughter of Hon. James and Margaret (Wilson) Griffis, Mr.
Griffis having formerly been a representative from Randolph county. This
union has been blessed by the birth of three daughters, viz; Ida, wife of
D. H. Shively, a farmer of Darke county, Ohio; Ketta, married to Boyce
Eidson, also a farmer of Darke county, and Maggie, still unmarried. Levi
Elston, the grandfather of our subject, came from New Jersey, was a farmer,
and settled in Darke county, Ohio, about 1820, when there were but few
settlements in the neighborhood of Greenville, and there died a few years
later, leaving a family of five sons, and five daughters. George Elston,
the father of William C., was the third son of Levi, and married Elizabeth
Cole, daughter of Samuel Cole, of Darke county, Ohio. Mr. Cole was also a
native of New Jersey, from the same neighborhood with Levi Elston. George
Elston was the father of two sons and two daugh
ters, viz: William C., the subject proper of this sketch; Samuel, a farmer
of southern Ills.; Catherine, wife of I.W. Swell, of Union City, and
Harriet, wife of John W. Griffis of Strong City, Kans.


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