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Author: kdsprunger
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Not sure if this will help, but in the 1910 census, the first year a street and/or address
was listed for the Bordner family, Augustus, Eva, Ira, Katherine, Carl & William
Bordner were living on Prairie St. in Brookston, IN, dwellings 47/48 & 48/49. Prairie
Street is also known as SR 43.
In 1920 Ira's family is listed as living on a farm, location on the census sheet
states Prairie Twp., outside Brookston town, west of the RR. (The RR runs north &
south, 1 block east of SR 43/Prairie St)
By 1930 Ira's family is living on SR 43 (Prairie St. in Brookston) SR 43 begins north
in Reynolds, IN south to West Lafayette, IN ending in West Lafayette. Could be since
Prairie St. isn't listed as the address they may be living either north of Brookston
on SR 43 or south of Brookston. The locations indicated in the 1910-1930 census shows the
family living very close to or in Brookston.
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COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI, INDIANA, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, Published by F.A.
Battey & Co, Chicago, 1883, pg 263
AUGUSTUS S. BORDNER is a native of Berks County, Penn., and is the son of Augustus and
Harriet Bordner, residents of Relirersburg. Our subject's boyhood was passed on his
father's farm and in attending the common schools. Later he attended the Freeland
Seminary, Montgomery County, Penn., and then taught for six winters and one full year. He
came to Brookston in 1868, and in 1870 engaged in the lumber trade, in which he still
continues. Mr. Bordner was married in Brookston to Miss E. C. Anderson, a daughter of John
Anderson, a farmer of Ford County, Ill., and to this union has been born one child, Ira J.
Mr. Bordner has served as Trustee of Prairie Township for three terms; he is a Royal Arch
Mason, and both he and wife are members of the Universalist Church.
I hope this helps in some way to narrow down the possible location of their
home...............Karen
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