History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . s life has been one of consecration to his calling, andwell does he merit a place of honor in every history touching upon thelives and deeds of those who have given the best of their powers andtalents for the betterment of their kind. John Walter Laird, president of Central Normal College, Danville,Indiana, was born in Oswega, Kansas, September 2, 1871, and is the sonof Alvin and Levina Rebecca (Somsel) Laird, both parents being nativesof Ohio. His father served three and one-half years in the Civil War inCompany H
History of Hendricks County, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . s life has been one of consecration to his calling, andwell does he merit a place of honor in every history touching upon thelives and deeds of those who have given the best of their powers andtalents for the betterment of their kind. John Walter Laird, president of Central Normal College, Danville,Indiana, was born in Oswega, Kansas, September 2, 1871, and is the sonof Alvin and Levina Rebecca (Somsel) Laird, both parents being nativesof Ohio. His father served three and one-half years in the Civil War inCompany H, Ninety-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and wasmustered out as a corporal in his regiment. After the close of the warhe returned to Ohio, where he engaged in farming. In 1882 he removedto How^ard county, Indiana, and continued his farming operations thereuntil his death in 1909, at the age of sixty-three years, his wife dying thesame year. He was commander of the Grand Army of the Republic postat Galveston, and a trustee in the Universalist church in the same JOHN W. LAIRD HENDRICKS COUNTY, INDIANA. 337 To Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Laird were born eight children: D. C, a farmerHving near Lucerene, Cass county, Indiana; John W., the immediate sub-ject of this sketch; Charles, deceased in 1909; Frank, a carpenter of Ko-komo; Lola R., who was the wife of Albert Downhour, of Cass county, thisstate, but who died in 1913; Homer Lester, of Fullerton, North Dakota;Jennie, deceased at the age of sixteen, and Joseph, who died in infancy. John \\\ Laird was born on a ranch near Osw^ego, Labette county,Kansas, to which place his parents had moved soon after their received his primary education in West Sonora, Preble county, Ohio,where his parents had removed when he was a small lad. His educationaltraining was continued in the Galveston schools in Cass county, this state,and he graduated from the high school at that place in 1891. He im-mediately began teaching in the
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