. Indiana County, Pennsylvania; her people, past and present, embracing a history of the county. , wife of Levi Hershey, nowliving in the State of Indiana; Sarah, , deceased; Adam, a physician andsurgeon, now living in Galveston, Texas; JacobJ., whose home is in Colorado; Margaret, Mrs.]\Iartin Ober, of Kansas; Abraham, who livesin the State of Indiana; Daniel, living in Mis-souri; Ella, married and living in Independ-ence, Kans.; Louis, deceased; Samuel, a resi-dent of New York State; Angeline, deceased,and one that died in infancy. Peter W. Wassam came to Indiana countywith bis pa
. Indiana County, Pennsylvania; her people, past and present, embracing a history of the county. , wife of Levi Hershey, nowliving in the State of Indiana; Sarah, , deceased; Adam, a physician andsurgeon, now living in Galveston, Texas; JacobJ., whose home is in Colorado; Margaret, Mrs.]\Iartin Ober, of Kansas; Abraham, who livesin the State of Indiana; Daniel, living in Mis-souri; Ella, married and living in Independ-ence, Kans.; Louis, deceased; Samuel, a resi-dent of New York State; Angeline, deceased,and one that died in infancy. Peter W. Wassam came to Indiana countywith bis parents when seven years old, livedwith them in ^Montgomerj to\vnship andmoved with the family to Rayne he attended the connnon schoolsnear home. On Sept. 8, 1864. lie enlisted forservice in the Union army, joining CompanyE, 211th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantiy,with which he took part in various battles;he was wounded once in a night skirmish neartiie James river, in Virginia. At the close ofthe war ]\Ir. Wassam was mustered out atCamp Reynolds, near Pittsbui-g, Pa., and re-. ^ J^ ^a^^ £i<yi^ HISTORY OF INDIANA COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA 1153 turning to Indiana county, lived at Cherry-tree for two years, doing business as a mer-chant and keeping boarders. Then he settleddown to farming in Montgomery townslup,where he continued to reside until 1904, inthat year moving to Green township and buy-ing the farm of twenty-eight acres upon whichhe has since resided. He also owns the oldhomestead of 134 acres in Montgomery town-ship. He has become one of the most promi-nent residents of his locality. In addition togeneral farming, he raises, ships and buysstock, in which line he has been engaged fortwenty-six years, his interests being quite ex-tensive; he deals in fertilizers and has doneconsiderable in the line of building soil andfertilizing, being a man of the enterprisingtype, one who keeps abreast of the times ineverything pertaining to his particular has no
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