Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St Joseph counties, Indiana, together with biographies of many prominent men of northern Indiana and of the whole state, both living and dead . ismal spot he let the light of day. He made many improvements, and after many years of hard labor he had the satis-faction of seeing wavini fields of grain where once had been heavy timber land, andknew this to have been brought about by his own efforts. He and his wife are mem-bers of the Duukard Church, and he was one of the prime movers in buildingthe church of that denomination in the township. He i
Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St Joseph counties, Indiana, together with biographies of many prominent men of northern Indiana and of the whole state, both living and dead . ismal spot he let the light of day. He made many improvements, and after many years of hard labor he had the satis-faction of seeing wavini fields of grain where once had been heavy timber land, andknew this to have been brought about by his own efforts. He and his wife are mem-bers of the Duukard Church, and he was one of the prime movers in buildingthe church of that denomination in the township. He is a Republican, a public-spirited citizen, and an honorable man in every particular. Being essentially relig-ious he has brought up his children in a very creditable manner, and has assistedthem nil to a substantial start in life. His daughter, Sarah A., married SamuelSteiner, a farmer of Kansas, by whom she has four cliiUlren; Catherine married Sam-uel Smith, alHO a farmer of the Sunflower State, by whom she has three children;John married Miss Kate Peck, by whom ho has three children, and is a butcher ofFroeport. 111.; Caroline married John Buzzard, a farmer of Harrison township, Elk-. MEMOIRS OF INDIANA. 617 hart county, and is the mother of six children; Abraham married Ann Bnzzard, is afarmer of Elkhart township, and has six children; William married Eliza Ann Cripe,is a farmer of the township, and has four children; Rebecca married Samuel F. Croup,of Goshen, and has two children; Alfred married Sophia Blough, and is farming onthe old home place, and Susao is at home. Mr. Kercher has twenty-eight grand-children and six great-grandchildren. Hon. E. Volnet Binoham. Mishawaka, Ind. Among the members of the county bar there is no man who has been more the architect of his own fort-unes, as a representative and prominent citizen, than Mr. Bingham. In his chosenprofession he occupies a high position which he has acquired by arduous study anda strict adherence to an hon
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