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Author: Dawn_Maddox_Montgomery
Surnames: Settle, Albertson, Graves, Brown, Gehrett, Study, Shepherd
Classification: biography
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Standard History of Adams and Wells Counties, Indiana
John W Tyndall for Adams County
O E Lesh for Wells County
The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1918
Page 554 - 555
Thomas J Settle
For forty-six years the name of Settle has been an honored one in Nottingham Township,
Wells County, always representing sturdy, honest and industrious people, good citizens and
supporters of education and religion. It was founded by one of the finest men this
section has ever known, the late Winfield S Settle, who was the father of Thomas J Settle,
one of the townships prosperous farmers and respected men. The latter was bon on his
father's homestead in Nottingham Township, October 28, 1878, and is a son of Winfield
S and Elizabeth (Albertson) Settle.
Winfield Scott Settle was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina November 20, 1841 and
was a son of Josiah and Nancy A (Graves) Steele, both of whom were natives of North
Carolina. On the paternal side the ancestry was Scotch-Irish and on the maternal was
German. In 1847 the grandparents of Thomas J Settle moved to Ohio and settled in Butler
County, where the grandfather died in 1869 and the grandmother removed from there to
Richmond, Indiana in 1877 and died there. While still living in Butler County, Winfield S
Settle became a soldier in the Union Army on January 26, 1864, enlisting for service in
the Civil war in Company F, Eighty-fourth Regiment, the enlistment term of the
Eighty-fourth having expired, and he remained in military service until the close of the
war. He took part in many battles, these including Tunnel Hill, Resaca, Kingston, Pumpkin
Vine Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, Neal Dow Church, Peach Tree Creek, Vining Station and after
a short furlough on account!
of sickness, he was with his regiment at Lookout Mountain and through the campaign in
the southwest. He received his final discharge at Indianapolis, Indiana, having done his
full duty as a soldier, and reached his home in Ohio in January 1866.
In 1869 Mr Settle came to Wells County, Indiana securing a partly cleared farm in section
30, Nottingham Township, and he made this his home during the rest of his life. He
developed a fine farm here through prudence and industry, and he became one of the leading
citizens, a man whose honest was never questioned and whose word at all times was a
valuable as a legal document. In politics he was influential in the republican party and
he was one of the most active and most liberal members in the United Brethren Church. He
was married April 24, 1869 to Elizabeth Albertson who was born in Adams County, Indiana, a
daughter of Charles and Mary Ann (Brown) Albertson, natives respectively of Randolph and
Jay counties, Indiana. To Winfield S Settle and his wife the following children were
born; Anna, William H, Olive, Winfield A, Thomas J, James E, Charles C, Walter B, Hazel,
who is the wife of Hugh Gehrett of Nottingham Township, and one deceased.
Thomas J Settle remained at home with his father until he was eighteen years of age, in
the meanwhile attending school near the home farm during the winter seasons. About that
time a new industry in this part of Indiana began to attract industrious young men and Mr
Settle also went to work in the oil fields and continued to be employed there for twelve
years, during the most of the time as an oil pumper. Since then Mr Settle has been
engaged in general farming on eighty acres of the old homestead which he owns, and he also
gives considerable attention to breeding Chester White hogs, in which industry he has been
very successful.
Mr Settle was married August 20, 1904 to Miss Iva Shepherd, who was born and reared in
Randolph County, Indiana. She is a daughter of Ezra and Mary (Study) Shepherd. Mr and
Mrs Settle have had three children, the two survivors being; Lloyd A who was born December
25, 1907 and Richard, who was born August 26, 1912. Mr and Mrs Settle are members of the
United Brethren Church at Phoenix, Indiana. In politics Mr Settle is a republican from
principle, never having any desire for public office as a reward of his loyalty.
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