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I thought these names might be of interest to someone on the list as well as
some history of Mt. Carmel. I found the history quite interesting as Mt
Carmel is where my Clarkson and Simpson family lived 1820 +.
Lou in Indiana
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Compendium of Biography
Of
Henry County, Indiana
B. F. Bowen 1920
Page 250 & 251
JOHN C. CURRY.The honored subject of this sketch, a
successful business man and enterprising citizen of New Castle. Henry=20
county,Indiana, has obtained an enviable reputation throughout his community=
=20
as a man of shrewdness and sagacity, and also as a man who has obtained his=20
present eminence. not by any questionable methods, but by persistent=20
application. indomitable perseverance and Unquestionable integrity. A firm=20
believer in the great truth of the brotherhood of man, he has ever been=20
guided by the principle laid down in the Golden Rule, and his life has been=20
so ordered that no shadow of wrong or Suspicion of evil has ever rested upon=
=20
him.John Curry was born in Hamilton
county, Ohio. ten miles from Cincinnati, at the village or Mount Healthy, Ma=
y=20
20,1823. His parents were both natives or New Jersey. the former being a=20
weaver by occupation, but who, after his removal to Ohio, followed the=20
pursuit of agriculture. His death occurred when the subject of this sketch=20
was but ten years oId. The Latter remained at home until be was sixteen year=
s=20
old, the operation of the farm devolving entirely upon him. When sixteen=20
years he went to Harrison. Ohio, to learn the carriagemaking trade and=20
remained there one year, going to Mt. Carmel. Franklin county,Indiana. Here=20
he entered upon a regular apprenticeship of four years, receiving for his=20
services during this time no money what=E2=80=94ever, excepting one suit of=20=
cloths=20
and three months schooling each year. What cash he
had was obtained by two weeks work in the harvest field each fall. Having=20
completed his trade, at the age of twenty=E2=80=94one years, he returned to=20=
his old=20
home in Ohio and worked there for one year. Then returning to Mt. Carmel in=20
1845; he there opened a shop of his own. and as Mt. Carmel was at that time=20
the center of much business activity and on a much traveled thoroughfare he=20
did a splendid business. He continued at this place until 1859 and in that=20
year came to New Castle, this county, and. in company with Charles C. Counci=
l=20
and George Bishop, started in business. They continued operations about two=20
years and then sold out. The subject enlisted in the Thirty-third Regiment=20
Indiana Volunteer Infantry and during his service of one year with that=20
regiment was a greater part of the time detailed for general work about the=20
camp. He received an honorable discharge May 12,1865, and .immediately=20
returned to New Castle. Here he entered the emplo of Johnson & Festen.=20
manufacturers of wagons and grain cradles, and remained with that firm for=20
eleven years. He then started in business for himself,and for the past=20
twenty-five years has been success fully engaged here in that line. He has=20
made wagons and has done much repair work of various kinds. In addition to a=
n=20
ordinary repair equipment he has also added facilities for setting rubber=20
tires.The subject has been twice married. His first wife was Miss Rebecca M.=
=20
Lang, whom he married at Mt. Carmel in 1846, and to this union there were=20
born the following children: Alwilda is the wife of J. W. Bicknelly, of=20
Fremont County, Iowa; Florence died at the early age of thirty-four years;=20
she had much local reputation as an oil painter, some very creditable=20
specimens of her work now hanging in the Odd Fellows lodge room in this city=
.=20
Mrs. Rebecca Curry died May 8. 1862, and for his second wife Mr. Curry chose=
=20
Miss Sarah A. Price, of Fairfield, this state, whom he married in 1868. No=20
children were born to this union,
but they took into their home and reared a little girl, Mamie McCready, a=20
niece of Mrs.Curry. She is now the wife of Bert Burke, of Greenfield, Hancoc=
k=20
county. this state. In politics the subject of this sketch is a stanch=20
Democrat, and in local matters takes quite an active part; though never an=20
aspirant for office. Fraternally he has been an Odd Fellow for over forty=20
years and has passed all the chairs in the subordinate lodge and encampment.=
=20
He has also been a representative to the grand lodge and has in various ways=
=20
signified his keen interest in the welfare of the order. He and his wife are=
=20
both members of the Rebekahs and have filled all its chairs. His old army=20
associations are kept alive through his membership in the George W. Leonard=20
Post No. 148, G.A.R.. in which he has served as vice-commander. He has=20
attended the national encampments at Columbus and Indianapolis. His methods=20
have been thoroughly in keeping with the spirit of the new century and as
the architect of his own fortune he builded wisely and well. He is widely=20
known and by all is esteemed for his genuine worth and high character.
I have typed just as it is written in the book=20
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