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HISTORY
OF PARKE COUNTY, INDIANA
(Source: History of Vigo & Parke County, Indiana - Chicago:
H. H. Hill & N. Iddings, 1880, 1310 pgs.
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
BIOGRAPHIES OF PENN TOWNSHIP
NOTE: Biographies will be transcribed upon request
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| BEESON, E. W. |
303 |
| BUNDY, Eli |
290 |
| BYERS, Z. |
298 |
| CHAMNESS, Milo |
297 |
| COLEMAN, E. T. |
304 |
| COX, John |
300 |
| DARE, J. S. |
298 |
| DEER, Edmund |
305 |
| FINNEY, Wesley |
287 |
| HEDGES, J. W. |
299 |
| HILL, B. F. |
294 |
| HILL, N. V. |
296 |
| HINSHAW, J. R. |
297 |
| HINSHAW, James M. |
291 |
| HOBBS, B. C. |
299 |
| HOBSON, Milton |
289 |
| KELLEY, Robert, Hon. |
286 |
| KELLY, Samuel |
303 |
| LUTHER, C. W. |
306 |
| MARRIS, John |
293 |
| MILLER, D. J. |
294 |
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MITCHELL, Perley |
285 |
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| MOORE, John |
288 |
| MORRIS, C. F. |
293 |
| MORRIS, E. K. |
296 |
| MORRIS, Josiah |
295 |
| MORRISON, Eli |
287 |
| NEWLIN, Eli |
286 |
| OVERMAN, Charles |
291 |
| PEARSON, Perley |
289 |
| PORTER, D. A. |
304 |
| RAYL, Franklin |
294 |
| REYNOLDS, Joel |
288 |
| STOUT, David |
296 |
| TEN BROOK, Andrew |
295 |
| TOMLINSON, A. D. |
303 |
| TUCKER, J. P., M. D. |
290 |
| VICKREY, E. S. |
306 |
| WEAVER, J. H. |
290 |
| WEAVER, W. B. |
292 |
| WELCH, W. N. |
297 |
| WOODARD, John E. |
292 |
| WOODY, W. C. |
293 |
| WRIGHT, Robert |
288 |
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| E. W. BEESON
Source: History of Vigo & Parke County, Indiana - Chicago:
H. H. Hill & N. Iddings, 1880, - pg. |
PERLEY
MITCHELL, deceased, was one of the pioneers of Parke
County. He was born in what is now Sullivan county,
New Hampshire, October 13, 1795. At the age of nine
years he went into his father's factory and began to work at
carding and fulling machines, and worked with his father
until he was eighteen years old, with the exception of the
time he spent in the common schools. At eighteen
Mr. Mitchell went to Claremont, New Hampshire, and
worked at the same business, dressing and fulling cloth, for
two years when he moved to Watertown, New York, where he
lived for four years. He was, however attacked with a
disease, very prevalent at that time, called the western
fever. Mr. Mitchell spent the next two years
looking for a location visiting in his travels the towns and
cities on the lakes and on the Ohio river, and through
Indiana. Finding a tract of land in the reserve in
Parke county, Indiana, which suited him, he purchased from
the government one hundred and thirty acres, and immediately
commenced to clear off a patch and build a cabin. The
primitive condition of Parke county at that time may be
inferred from the fact that his nearest neighbors were four
miles away. Deer, wolves and bears were plenty, and
several bands of the Miami and Kickapoo Indians were still
in the neighborhood, and the whole population of Parke
county did not exceed one hundred persons. In 1825
Mr. Mitchell built a carding machine, and two years
after a saw-mill, which he continued to run for a great many
years. In 1838 Mr. Mitchell was married to
Miss Phoebe Lewis of Parke county. After spending
his life form 1821 until 1874 in Parke county, he removed to
Terre Haute, Vigo county and July 20, 1878, he died at his
old homestead while on a visit to his sons, who still occupy
the farm where the father settled when he came to the
county.
Source: History of Vigo & Parke County, Indiana - Chicago:
H. H. Hill & N. Iddings, 1880, - pg. 285 |
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