. History of Cass County Indiana : From its earliest settlement to the present time : with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled. s family, and a progressive Repub-lican in his politics. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the]\Iodern Woodmen, and is active and interested in the work of thesocieties, as well as in all work pertaining to the general welfare. William B. Lake. It has been well said that history treats of thosemen who have been foremost in the political and military activities of anation, while biogi-aphy goes further, and deals with the i
. History of Cass County Indiana : From its earliest settlement to the present time : with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled. s family, and a progressive Repub-lican in his politics. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the]\Iodern Woodmen, and is active and interested in the work of thesocieties, as well as in all work pertaining to the general welfare. William B. Lake. It has been well said that history treats of thosemen who have been foremost in the political and military activities of anation, while biogi-aphy goes further, and deals with the individualswho have devoted their lives to the tilling of the soil and the quiet growthand development of the nation along those lines. This being the fact, itis most fitting and proper that a man like William B. Lake, who is thesubject of this necessarily brief review, and one of the well knownfarmers of the county, should find place within the pages of this work. William B. Lake was born on the 13th of November, 1842, and is theson of Isaac and Laura (Viny) Lake. The father came from NewJersey in young manhood, settling in Marion county, this state, later. HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY 1085 settling in Carroll county, where he passed away in 1871. He was thefather of nine children, of which number William B. was the sixth born. William B. Lake was bom in Carroll county, on the old homestead ofhis father, and in the common schools of that community he received hisearly education. In 1879 he came to Cass county, here acquiring hispresent farm, and he has continued to live in the vicinity of Galvestonthrough the ensuing years. In 1867, on the 3d day of October, hemarried Lydia Jane Wright, the daughter of Isaac and Susanna (Cline)Wright, and six children have been born to them, three of whom aredeceased. The others are Laura B., who married Val Cunningham, andhas three children—Ellis, Everett and Otis; Lenora, married to WalterRobinson, has two children—Truman and Raymond; and Clare
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