. History of Cass County Indiana : From its earliest settlement to the present time : with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled. of about four years has ever since made this city hishome. He is a native of Departemant des Voge, Canton de St. Die,France, his birth occurred on June 13, 1841, and in 1852, when he waseleven years old, he came with his parents, Nicholas and Margarte(Markuere) Maurice, to America. Nicholas Maurice located on a small tract of laud near Dayton,Ohio, after coming to this country and engaged in the business ofagriculture, in which he co


. History of Cass County Indiana : From its earliest settlement to the present time : with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled. of about four years has ever since made this city hishome. He is a native of Departemant des Voge, Canton de St. Die,France, his birth occurred on June 13, 1841, and in 1852, when he waseleven years old, he came with his parents, Nicholas and Margarte(Markuere) Maurice, to America. Nicholas Maurice located on a small tract of laud near Dayton,Ohio, after coming to this country and engaged in the business ofagriculture, in which he continued until his death. All the education John L. ]\Iaurice ever received was in the schoolsof his native county and a winter in the schools of Dayton. Whenhe was twelve years of age he started out on his own responsibilityand his first employment was as a farm laborer, and for his serviceshe received four dollars a month and his keep. He continued work-ing as a farm laborer, with gradually increasing wages, until he grewolder, and in 1861 he went to Indianapolis, Indiana, where for a yearhe was employed as a clerk in an ice cream parlor. The next year he.


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