A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . usiness alone until 1856. For the next tenyears he was engaged in buying furs, and in othertrading with the Indians. In November, 1S30, , in connection with Alexis Coquillard, purchaseda quarter section of land on the St. Joseph River, onwhich the city of South Bend is laid out. He was ap-pointed postmaster of South Bend, June 6, 1S29, andserved for ten years. He was elected clerk of theCounty Court, August I, 1830; and he was made
A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . usiness alone until 1856. For the next tenyears he was engaged in buying furs, and in othertrading with the Indians. In November, 1S30, , in connection with Alexis Coquillard, purchaseda quarter section of land on the St. Joseph River, onwhich the city of South Bend is laid out. He was ap-pointed postmaster of South Bend, June 6, 1S29, andserved for ten years. He was elected clerk of theCounty Court, August I, 1830; and he was made countyrecorder, holding the office seven years. From 1832 to1837 he filled the office of colonel of the 79th Regi-ment of Indiana Militia. He was one of the first trus-tees of South Bend. .%|. —-»»— ffilEEGARDEN, DOCTOR ABRAHAM, of Laporte, jlir Indiana, was born in Columbiana County, Ohio,^ September 22, 1814. His father, William Tee- =fl garden, a native of Pennsylvania, settled in Ohioin 1804 with his wife and two children. He was a manof a generous disposition and a kind friend to the In-dians, whose camp-fires blazed near the door of his. ^TiS^^,^,,^,^^ C^^^r^,,^^ ^^^^r^ ^ ^, i^lh Dist.\ REPRESENTATIVE A/EX OF //YD/ANA. 63 cabin. In this wilderness he cleared a large farm, broughtup a family of twelve children, saw ihem all married andsettled, and died at the ripe age of eighty-four. AbrahamTeegarden worked upon the farm and attended schoolthree months every winter until he was seventeen. Atthat time symptoms of pulmonary disease were discovered;he was therefore relieved from hard labor. At sixteenhe commenced a course of study at Worthington College,and subsequently studied medicine with his brother Eli,at Mansfield. In 1837 he removed to Laporte, Indiana,when he began practice. In 1838 he had become so pros-perous that he was free from debt, owned a good horse,and had an extensive business. In 1840 he built a newoffice in a more central portion of the town. In 184
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