G. H. GRANT was born in Sandusky County, Ohio, in 1834, and is the son of James and Eliza (Beard) Grant, natives of New York and Maryland. When a child he was taken by his parents to Geauga County, Ohio, and thence, in 1839, brought to this township, where at intervals he went to the first school in Troy, taught by Miss Clarissa Blanchard, in a round-log house with a fire- place that burned wood from four to eight feet in length.
He remained with his father on the forest farm till twenty-two years old, and then, with $100, went to Iowa and farmed two years, then entered land in Kansas, but returned to this township in 1859, and went into the lumber business, running one of the first saw-mills built in Troy, and successfully conducting it till 1877, when he went to farming on a piece of land containing eighty acres, which he had purchased in 1865-66, and which he has brought to a high state of cultivation and furnished with good buildings.
In 1856, he married Minerva Barnes, daughter of Fielding Barnes, a native of Kentucky. By this union he has had six children, three of whom are yet living. Although never an aspirant for office he has been selected by his townsmen to fill various trusts, and has served as Assessor two terms and Trustee one term. He is an Odd Fellow and quite prominent as a citizen.
Source:
Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana : historical and biographical (1882)
By Goodspeed
He remained with his father on the forest farm till twenty-two years old, and then, with $100, went to Iowa and farmed two years, then entered land in Kansas, but returned to this township in 1859, and went into the lumber business, running one of the first saw-mills built in Troy, and successfully conducting it till 1877, when he went to farming on a piece of land containing eighty acres, which he had purchased in 1865-66, and which he has brought to a high state of cultivation and furnished with good buildings.
In 1856, he married Minerva Barnes, daughter of Fielding Barnes, a native of Kentucky. By this union he has had six children, three of whom are yet living. Although never an aspirant for office he has been selected by his townsmen to fill various trusts, and has served as Assessor two terms and Trustee one term. He is an Odd Fellow and quite prominent as a citizen.
Source:
Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana : historical and biographical (1882)
By Goodspeed
G. H. GRANT was born in Sandusky County, Ohio, in 1834, and is the son of James and Eliza (Beard) Grant, natives of New York and Maryland. When a child he was taken by his parents to Geauga County, Ohio, and thence, in 1839, brought to this township, where at intervals he went to the first school in Troy, taught by Miss Clarissa Blanchard, in a round-log house with a fire- place that burned wood from four to eight feet in length.
He remained with his father on the forest farm till twenty-two years old, and then, with $100, went to Iowa and farmed two years, then entered land in Kansas, but returned to this township in 1859, and went into the lumber business, running one of the first saw-mills built in Troy, and successfully conducting it till 1877, when he went to farming on a piece of land containing eighty acres, which he had purchased in 1865-66, and which he has brought to a high state of cultivation and furnished with good buildings.
In 1856, he married Minerva Barnes, daughter of Fielding Barnes, a native of Kentucky. By this union he has had six children, three of whom are yet living. Although never an aspirant for office he has been selected by his townsmen to fill various trusts, and has served as Assessor two terms and Trustee one term. He is an Odd Fellow and quite prominent as a citizen.
Source:
Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana : historical and biographical (1882)
By Goodspeed
He remained with his father on the forest farm till twenty-two years old, and then, with $100, went to Iowa and farmed two years, then entered land in Kansas, but returned to this township in 1859, and went into the lumber business, running one of the first saw-mills built in Troy, and successfully conducting it till 1877, when he went to farming on a piece of land containing eighty acres, which he had purchased in 1865-66, and which he has brought to a high state of cultivation and furnished with good buildings.
In 1856, he married Minerva Barnes, daughter of Fielding Barnes, a native of Kentucky. By this union he has had six children, three of whom are yet living. Although never an aspirant for office he has been selected by his townsmen to fill various trusts, and has served as Assessor two terms and Trustee one term. He is an Odd Fellow and quite prominent as a citizen.
Source:
Counties of Whitley and Noble, Indiana : historical and biographical (1882)
By Goodspeed
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