. History of Cass County Indiana : From its earliest settlement to the present time : with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled. t meager commonor district school education, but the business of life has kept his witsshai*i3 and his mind has been one ever open to impressions and to expan-sion, so that his lack of schooling has been in a large measure 1852 Mr. Thaddeus Horn came to Bethlehem township and purchasedthe old John White farm from Joseph Sellers, and for a few years helived on the place and gave diligent attention to its cultivation. He la


. History of Cass County Indiana : From its earliest settlement to the present time : with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled. t meager commonor district school education, but the business of life has kept his witsshai*i3 and his mind has been one ever open to impressions and to expan-sion, so that his lack of schooling has been in a large measure 1852 Mr. Thaddeus Horn came to Bethlehem township and purchasedthe old John White farm from Joseph Sellers, and for a few years helived on the place and gave diligent attention to its cultivation. He latersold the farm to a Methodist minister of the name of Terrill, and he him-self became identified, in a way, with sawmill work, where he continuedfor a year. He then turned back to farming, and bought the Noah Martinfarm, another well-known place in Bethlehem township, and the HenryBarnett place. He later added to this by repeated purchases until todayLevi Horn, his son, has a fine place of one hundred and sixty Thaddeus Horn came into possession of the farm it was coveredwith a heavy growth of timber, the most of which has given place to clean. HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY 973 and smooth fields that are under the careful cultivation of their Horn saw to most of the building work that has been carried on atthe place, and has a number of commodious buildings of all the whole, -his enterprise has yielded a satisfactory income, and hehas a home of which any man in the community might well be proud. Inaddition to his farming interests he is also a stockholder in the First Na-tional Bank. On April 2, 1874, Mr. Horn married Fannie, the daughter of Aaronand Jane (Cuthberson) Tilton. Nine children have been born to them,of which number three are now deceased. Those who live are named asfollows: Mary A., the wife of William Lemmon; Bertha E., the wifeof R. J. Johnson; Franklin Y., married to Amy Dreutzer; Ada weddedKirk AVells; Flora and Burson. The dece


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