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From: "Debbie C. Davis" <debbiecdavis(a)yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 10:07 PM
Subject: [InFounta] Biography John Hathaway
Beckwith, H.W. History of Fountain County, Indiana. Chicago: HH Hill 1881
Page 426, 427
John Hathaway, farmer and stock raiser, Snoddy's Mills, is a son of Nimrod
and Cynthia (Insley) Hathaway. Nimrod Hathaway was born in Circleville,
Ohio, July 4, 1797, and was raised on a farm. When about fifteen years old
he apprenticed himself to a tanner to learn the trade, his father having
died when he (Nimrod) was young. Not far from 1825 he came to Fountain
County, Indiana, and started a tannery, which he continued for about five
years. This not paying him, he worked at anything he could get to do. He
entered eighty acres of land, and added till he owned nearly 200 acres. He
entered par of the land on which John now lives. He married in Ohio, but
lost his wife before leaving there. He came to Indiana, bringing one son,
Henry. Here he was married to Cynthia Insley, a native of South Carolina.
They lived in a round-log cabin till three children were born to them. He
then built a small one-story frame house, hewing most of the plank himself.
In 1853 he erected a large
frame building. He died in August 1868, after burying his second wife and
marrying a third time. John Hathaway was born in a log cabin April 11, 1829.
At the age of twenty-four he married Sarah J. Penner, who died in 1860,
leaving one child, James Monroe. He was next married to Mrs. Mary J.
Clifton, a native of Ohio. She was born in Ross county July 30, 1829, and
moved with her parents, Cyrus and Mary (Raney) Clifton, to Vermilion County,
Indiana, in 1831, and to Fountain County, Indiana in 1845. Mrs. Hathaway had
two children, Isabel and Isaac F. Furgeson, by her first husband. Mr.
Hathaway has been the architect of his own fortune, has never moved but
once, and then only three-quarters of a mile. His first eighty acres cost
$1,000. He owns 385 acres, 11 acres of which he received from his father's
estate. He has one child by his second marriage, Julia, now Mrs. Samuel
Rhodes. Mrs. Hathaway has been a Baptist many years. Mr. Hathaway has been a
thorough and lasting
democrat.
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