"HISTORY OF OWEN COUNTY 1884"
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

LAFAYETTE TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
PAGE 963

DAVID A. CRISS, pioneer stock raiser and farmer, was born
in Virginia January 12, 1814, and is the eighth of the
fourteen children born to John and Sarah (Tolan) Criss,
natives of Virginia and respectively of German and Irish
descent. David was reared a farmer and received the usual
schooling of the day. February 25, 1836, he was married to
Elizabeth Graham, a native of Ohio and to this union was
born eleven children, of which number four are yet living.
Mary Ann, Sarah (Mrs Troth), Harmon and David Monroe. In
1845, Mr. Criss moved to Indiana and located in this
township, made a home and subsequently a valuable farm,
which was then only a waste. He now owns 120 acres of
well cultivated land; his improvements consist of residence
barns,orchards, fencing and a good supply of stock. 
Mr. Criss gave his first ballot for William H. Harrison,
but in now a member of the National Greenback Party, and
has served his township as Trustee. He is a much esteemed
citizen, a man who has made his way alone and unaided.
He and his wife are member of the Church of the Saints.

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