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Surnames: Ward, Atchison, Arthur
Classification: Biography
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Francis Ashbury Ward, Deputy United States Marshall for Indiana, and ex-sheriff of Daviess
County, is a native of Knox County, born near the farm of the late Governor James D.
Williams (who was an intimate friend of the father of our subject) in 1839, and is a son
of Frank and Lydia (Atchison) Ward. The Ward family were of Irish origin and father was a
native of North Carolina, and came to Daviess Co., Ind. in early times. He died in
Harrison Township, of that county in 1866, at fifty-six years of age. The mother died in
1843. subject was educated in the common schools and attended the Evansville Commercial
College, graduating from that institution in 1861. He then taught school for about nine
terms, and was a successful pedagogue. He served about one year in the late war in
Company I, Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He has a good farm of 172 acres in
Harrison Township, and politically is a Democrat. In 1870 he was re-elected trustee of
the township, and sub!
sequently served one term as deputy-sheriff of Daviess County under Nathan G. Read. In
1880 he was elected sheriff of the county by a majority of fifty-eight, and was re-elected
in 1882 with a majority of 280. He is one of the most popular and efficient officials the
county has ever had, and has filled the duties of his office to the entire satisfaction of
his constituents. In October 1885, he was appointed deputy United States Marshall for
Indiana. He is a Mason and a member of the I.O.O.F. He was married in 1864, to Mrs. Mary
E. Arthur, a native of the county, who has borne him seven children.
History of Knox and Daviess County Indiana
Goodspeed Publishing; Chicago; 1886
Pages: 871-872
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