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

JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP IN OWEN CO., IN.
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WILLIAM NORRIS, a teacher and enterprising farmer and stock
raiser of Jefferson township, was born August 8, 1853 in
Coshocton County, Ohio, and is the fifth of eleven children
born to Jacob and Mary (Bixler) Norris, the latter a native
of Pennsylvania and of German extraction. 
The subject of this sketch was reared upon a farm and after
he arrived at his majority, he attended county normal 
schools; received a certificate to teach and has taught
nine successful terms in Owen County. He in company with
his parents came to Owen County in the spring of 1865, and
has today a nice farm of eighty acres beautifully situated
and mostly made by his own shrewd business management.
He is an energetic working Democrat, having voted with 
that party since he became a voter, and was elected 
Trustee the spring of 1882 of Jefferson Township.

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