Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska . rious and innumerable appliances and im-plements in hardware which are in daily demandupon a farm, from the lock upon the stable dooror the pin in the wagon-wheel, to the cultivator,plow or hay-rake. Our subject was born in Sullivan County, Ind.,Jan. 14, 1840. His grandfather, John Mahan, was,it is believed, b^ birth a German, who settled inthis country w-ith his parents while still a was a resident of Kentucky for a number ofyears, and was one of the early pioneers of Indiana,where he settled in 1837. The father of our s
Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska . rious and innumerable appliances and im-plements in hardware which are in daily demandupon a farm, from the lock upon the stable dooror the pin in the wagon-wheel, to the cultivator,plow or hay-rake. Our subject was born in Sullivan County, Ind.,Jan. 14, 1840. His grandfather, John Mahan, was,it is believed, b^ birth a German, who settled inthis country w-ith his parents while still a was a resident of Kentucky for a number ofyears, and was one of the early pioneers of Indiana,where he settled in 1837. The father of our sub-ject, Asa Mahan, was born in the Kentucky homenear Maysville. Upon the removal to Indiana heentered a tract of timber land, which was dulycleared and a farm redeemed from the wildernessof forest. This home continued to be his place ofresidence until his death. In his younger days Mr. Mahan learned the tradeof cooper, and continued in tiie same until 187G,when he removed to Sullivan County and took upa tract of Government land, which he immediately I ??. s -^m-
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