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Author: HuntingtonV
Surnames: Sult Tergarden Clark
Classification: biography
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LaFayette Sult, a leading and one of the most enterprising citizens of Warren Township,
was born July 29, 1843, in Morris County, Ohio, the youngest son of a family of six sons
and four daughters, born to Daniel and Barbara (Tergarden) Sult, who were both natives of
Lehigh and Westmoreland Counties, Penn., respectively. They came to Ohio in a very early
day, from whence in the year 1855, they removed to Indiana and Huntington County, first
locating and continuing to live the rest of their days on the land now owned and occupied
by our subject. LaFayette grew to manhood in this county, receiving a limited education
in consequence of the poor facilities afforded the children of his day. At the early age
of eighteen years, he alive to the necessity of the preservation of our Union, gallantly
enlisted as a volunteer, August 6, 1861, in Company C, Thirty Fourth Indiana Regiment,
where he served until September 12, 1862, when he was honorably discharged at Helena,
Ark., on acco!
unt of disability. October, 1863, he re-entered the service in Company D, One Hundred
and Thirtieth Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, from which he was mustered out as First Duty
Sergeant, on the staff of Capt. A. S. Purviance, December, 1865. Anterior to entering the
service he had learned the tinner's trade; after his return he followed that business
for about six years, when for a period of five years immediately subsequent he was engage
in contracting and constructing public work, since which time he has made farming and
stock raising his occupation. October 31, 1865, his marriage with Harriet C. Clark was
solemnized, by whom he is the father of seven children, these six now living: William D.,
Cora L., Minnie J., Melvin W., Solomon T., and Robert J. F. William D., the eldest, is
engaged in the drug business at Bippus, having the finest store in the village, which he
established in June, 1885, and by his courteous and obliging manner and straightforward
dealing has b!
een enabled to build up a good remunerative trade. From a business po
int of view Mr. Sult has been successful. He is the proprietor of a fine farm of
seventy-seven acres and a member of the I.O.O.F. In politics, he is an ardent Republican
and always warmly advocates the principles of that party, and may be found always working
for its success. He was honored with an election to the office of Justice of the Peace,
April, 1881, which bespeaks his popularity as the party is largely in the minority.
History of Huntington County, Indiana. (Brant & Fuller: Chicago, IL) 1887.
Biographical Sketches of Warren Township, p. 868/9.
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