Following is excerpt from PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHIC RECORD OF IROQUOIS COUNTY (1893), page 365, provided by Contributor Shanda Dornburg.
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At the age of thirty-eight, Peter Amerman married Margaret McKnight, a native of Kentucky, and unto them was born a family of thirteen children. The father taught school in the winter months and in the summer engaged in farming. He died at his home in Vermillion County, Ind. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church and were prominent and active workers. In his business dealing, he won success and acquired a handsome competence. In olitics, he was a Whig. He was a great reader and hind a large library of religious and other works. His death occurred at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. Of the children in the Amerman family, Mrs. Mary Jane Mast resides in the town of Dana, Vermillion County, Ind.; Richard is the next younger; Mrs. Eliza Ralston makes her home in Dana, Vermillion County; Sarah is deceased; James is living near the old homestead; John died in infancy; John, the second of the name, is living a retired life in Clinton, Ind.; William, who was a soldier during the late war, is living retired in Hoopeston; Theopolis, who was also one of the boys in blue, is located in Dana, Ind.; Henry went to the war and was never again heard from; and Peter, who was also one of the defenders of the Old Flag, owns and operates the homestead farm.
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At the age of thirty-eight, Peter Amerman married Margaret McKnight, a native of Kentucky, and unto them was born a family of thirteen children. The father taught school in the winter months and in the summer engaged in farming. He died at his home in Vermillion County, Ind. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church and were prominent and active workers. In his business dealing, he won success and acquired a handsome competence. In olitics, he was a Whig. He was a great reader and hind a large library of religious and other works. His death occurred at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. Of the children in the Amerman family, Mrs. Mary Jane Mast resides in the town of Dana, Vermillion County, Ind.; Richard is the next younger; Mrs. Eliza Ralston makes her home in Dana, Vermillion County; Sarah is deceased; James is living near the old homestead; John died in infancy; John, the second of the name, is living a retired life in Clinton, Ind.; William, who was a soldier during the late war, is living retired in Hoopeston; Theopolis, who was also one of the boys in blue, is located in Dana, Ind.; Henry went to the war and was never again heard from; and Peter, who was also one of the defenders of the Old Flag, owns and operates the homestead farm.
Following is excerpt from PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHIC RECORD OF IROQUOIS COUNTY (1893), page 365, provided by Contributor Shanda Dornburg.
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At the age of thirty-eight, Peter Amerman married Margaret McKnight, a native of Kentucky, and unto them was born a family of thirteen children. The father taught school in the winter months and in the summer engaged in farming. He died at his home in Vermillion County, Ind. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church and were prominent and active workers. In his business dealing, he won success and acquired a handsome competence. In olitics, he was a Whig. He was a great reader and hind a large library of religious and other works. His death occurred at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. Of the children in the Amerman family, Mrs. Mary Jane Mast resides in the town of Dana, Vermillion County, Ind.; Richard is the next younger; Mrs. Eliza Ralston makes her home in Dana, Vermillion County; Sarah is deceased; James is living near the old homestead; John died in infancy; John, the second of the name, is living a retired life in Clinton, Ind.; William, who was a soldier during the late war, is living retired in Hoopeston; Theopolis, who was also one of the boys in blue, is located in Dana, Ind.; Henry went to the war and was never again heard from; and Peter, who was also one of the defenders of the Old Flag, owns and operates the homestead farm.
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At the age of thirty-eight, Peter Amerman married Margaret McKnight, a native of Kentucky, and unto them was born a family of thirteen children. The father taught school in the winter months and in the summer engaged in farming. He died at his home in Vermillion County, Ind. Both he and his wife were members of the Presbyterian Church and were prominent and active workers. In his business dealing, he won success and acquired a handsome competence. In olitics, he was a Whig. He was a great reader and hind a large library of religious and other works. His death occurred at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. Of the children in the Amerman family, Mrs. Mary Jane Mast resides in the town of Dana, Vermillion County, Ind.; Richard is the next younger; Mrs. Eliza Ralston makes her home in Dana, Vermillion County; Sarah is deceased; James is living near the old homestead; John died in infancy; John, the second of the name, is living a retired life in Clinton, Ind.; William, who was a soldier during the late war, is living retired in Hoopeston; Theopolis, who was also one of the boys in blue, is located in Dana, Ind.; Henry went to the war and was never again heard from; and Peter, who was also one of the defenders of the Old Flag, owns and operates the homestead farm.
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