History of Cass County Indiana - From its earliest settlement to the present time - with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled (1913) (14761021546)

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Title: History of Cass County Indiana : From its earliest settlement to the present time : with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Powell, Jehu Z., 1848-1918, ed Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago (Ill.), pub
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Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center



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Kimberly, of Wisconsin;Mrs. Mary C. Nelson in Logansport; and Willard Roswell Cheney ofCalifornia. Henry S. jMurdock, of Cass county, has had a more varied careerthan usually falls to the lot of the average man. If the story of his lifewas properly written, it alone would make an interesting volume ofreading. Mr. Murdock was born December 10, 1835, at Clinton. Michi-gan, and is the only survivor of a family of six children born toTilson and Fannie (Blossom) Murdock, who were natives of Vermont,and of Scotch ancestry. The father was a farmer, but for the most part,worked at carpentering. He moved to Clinton, Michigan, at a time whenthe country was in a most primitive condition, and there passed theremainder of his days. The boyhood of Henry S. Murdock was passed in a manner notunusual in those days, and in the course of his early years acquired therudiments of an education in the district schools of his native com-munity. When old enough to begin to work, he secured a place clerk- fc -
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