. History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana. and mill-wright, and is at present thepresident of the Huntington Mill Company. Of the maternalancestors of the subject, the earliest record is of one Isaac Votaw,who was descended from French ancestors, and was born in Penn-sylvania, January 29, 1744. He married Ann Smith, in BucksCounty, Penn., February 11, 1768. Both were numbered amongthe peaceful followers of George Fox, and their maiTiage was sol-emnized according to the ceremonies of the Quaker Thomas was reared at home, receiving a good general edu-cation. He attended South W


. History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana. and mill-wright, and is at present thepresident of the Huntington Mill Company. Of the maternalancestors of the subject, the earliest record is of one Isaac Votaw,who was descended from French ancestors, and was born in Penn-sylvania, January 29, 1744. He married Ann Smith, in BucksCounty, Penn., February 11, 1768. Both were numbered amongthe peaceful followers of George Fox, and their maiTiage was sol-emnized according to the ceremonies of the Quaker Thomas was reared at home, receiving a good general edu-cation. He attended South Wabash Academy about two years,«nd the Rural Home Institute at Huntington one year. In 1874he entered St. Meinrads College when he was ordained to thepriesthood in 1880. The next two years was prefect of thatinstitution, and in September, 1883, he came to St Anthony. Heis BOW very acceptably engaged in ministering to a congregationof ninety-six families, and is pushing on to completion a new«hurch, a history of which appears in this work. rl*. ,


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