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" From the History of Huntington County 1914"
Jackson township's quota of successful citizens would not be complete without
mention of John A. DeAmitt, who for a number of years taught school during his earlier
career in this locality, and is remembered well for his work in that direction, and a
later generation knows him as a successful farmer and stock raiser.
John A. DeArmitt was born in Huntington county, Pennsylvania December 20, 1859, a son of
John A. and Margaret (Gallagher) DeArmitt. Both parents were also natives of Huntington
County, Pennsylvania. Grandfather Barney DeArmitt was of Irish birth, and emigrated to
the United States when a young man, locating in Huntington county, Pennsylvania. There he
married an Irish girl named McIlhaney, and they had a family of five sons and two
daughters, all of whom are now deceased. John A. DeArmitt, Sr., father of the Jackson
township citizen, was reared and married in his native state, and on moving to Indiana,
located in Huntington County in 1870. There he lived out the remainder of his days, as an
industrious farmer, and by long years of effort and good management accumulated
considerable property. He was the father of four sons and three daughters, four of whom
are living at this time. His sister is Anne, wife of Charles Hobley, of Huntington.
John DeArmitt Jr., was reared on the old farmstead in Jackson township, had schooling in
the local institutions of learning, and as his early career was largely spent in
educational work, he equipped himself for his profession by a great deal of study in
higher colleges and seminaries. The Roanoke Classical Seminary was one source of
cultivation for his mind; he also was a student in the Danville Normal, and attended the
DePaw University for a time. While attending school he was also teaching, and altogether
taught eighteen terms in the schools of Jackson township.
In August, 1889, Mr. DeArmitt married Miss Mary Shroyer, who was born and reared in
Jackson township, a daughter of J.S. Shroyer. Mr. and Mrs. DeArmitt have no children.
After their marriage they settled on a farm, and at the present time Mr. DeArmitt owns
seventy acres of land, two and a half miles west of Roanoke on the Christian Gravel Road.
He has been particularly successful in the raising of Poland-China hogs, and Jersey
cattle, and some of his stock is of the prize variety. He and his wife worship in the
Pleasant Chapel of the United Brethren faith, and in politics he has taken an active part
in the affairs of the democratic party. At one time he was his party's nominee for
county auditor. He and his wife have a pleasant home and are both agreeable people in all
their relations with the social community.
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