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

MORGAN TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
PAGE 946-947

JAMES HENDERSHOT, stock raiser and farmer was born in 
Belmont Ohio, February 23, 1823 and is the third of the 
family of Daniel and Mary (Brewer) Hendershot, natives
respectively of New Jersey and Ohio, and of German 
descent. James was reared on a farm and acquired during 
boyhood a fair English education. In 1847, he emigrated
to Indiana, and entered land which is now his home and
on November 13 of that year he married Malinda Stucky,
to which alliance have been born eleven children--Mary
(deceased), Melissa, Clarissa, Minerva(deceased), Laban, 
Perry B., Ioma, Viola(deceased), Daniel, Marietta and
Irvin.
Mr. Hendershot has a good farm of 150 acres nearly all 
of which is cultivated, also stocked with horses, cattle,
hogs, and sheep, and provided with first class farming
implements and valuable improvements. Mr. Hendershot is
a Republican, but leans somewhat to the Greenback party.
He is a worthy and respected citizen, an advocate of the
common schools, and a promoter of every public advancement
He and his wife are members of the Christian Church, in
which Mr. Hendershot is a deacon.

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