Beckwith, H. W. History of Fountain County, Indiana. Chicago: HH
Hill, 1881, p. 328.
A. Michner, miller, Veedersburg, was born in Ohio, in 1836, and is the son
of James and Eliza Michner, both natives of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Michner was educated in the common schools. Four years prior to his
coming to Fountain county, in 1872, be was engaged at Anderson, in the Michner
machine shops, where he was both stockholder and superintendent. Ho was married
in 1865 to Maria Mendenhall, a native of Ohio, and daughter of Steven and
Mary Mendenhall, both natives of Pennsylvania. Her brother, T. C. Mendenhall,
is professor of the Royal Seminary of Japan. Mr. Michner by this union has
four children: Maggie, Dora M., Hellie, and Helen; the last two are twins. He is
a member of the Knights of Honor. In politics he is a republican. He served
in the United States navy nearly five years, and passed through many of the
most closely contested engagements of the navy during the war, among which
were the attempt to retake Fort Sumter, guarding the coast in the neighborhood
of Charleston, South Carolina, and the capture of the rebel ram at Atlanta,
Georgia. In 1876 be erected, at Veedersburg, a flour-mill, which ho is now
operating. Mr. Michner is a miller well skilled to his profession, easily sees
the benefit of the late improvements, and adds to his present mill machinery
such inventions as will enable him to produce a better article of meal and
flour as rapidly as they are brought out.
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