. History of Cass County Indiana : From its earliest settlement to the present time : with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled. st of Indianawho was identified with the press of Richmond for nearly a half acentury. The latter was born near North Vernon, Indiana, in Decem-ber, 1823, and it was largely in the printing office that he received Mstraining and equipped himself for lifes duties. His early work as aprinter was in Indianapolis, from whence he went to Richmond, and inthe latter city published its first newspaper, known as the Broad-ax ofFreedom. In add
. History of Cass County Indiana : From its earliest settlement to the present time : with biographical sketches and reference to biographies previously compiled. st of Indianawho was identified with the press of Richmond for nearly a half acentury. The latter was born near North Vernon, Indiana, in Decem-ber, 1823, and it was largely in the printing office that he received Mstraining and equipped himself for lifes duties. His early work as aprinter was in Indianapolis, from whence he went to Richmond, and inthe latter city published its first newspaper, known as the Broad-ax ofFreedom. In addition to being connected with nearly every newspaperof importance published in Richmond, he served through the Civil waras lieutenant in the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Indiana VolunteerInfantry, and for many years was prominent in Republican married Miss Sarah Lewis, a daughter of one of the prominent mer-chants of Richmond, whose ancestors were Virginians, and who was adevoted and well known member of the Society of Friends, of Waynecounty. Seven children were born to Dr. Johnsons grandparents, Sam-uel F. being the fourth in order of HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY 1057 Samuel F. Johnson was reared to manhood in his native place, andthere received his education in the public schools and taught the dignityand value of hard labor. When he was but a lad of ten years he showedhis self-reliance and industry by earning money as an office boy forDr. Mclntyre of Eichmond, and when he was fourteen entered upon hisrailroad career. He continued as a brakeman on a freight train fromhis fourteenth to his eighteenth year, was then made freight conductor,a position which he held until he was twenty-four, and was then madeconductor of a passenger train. In 1872 he located in Logansport as hishome, and in November, 1892, he was made assistant trainmaster atLogansport, from which position he was called to that of trainmaster in1903. On April 2, 1877, he was united in marriage with
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