DAVID MACY, retired merchant, farmer, etc., with his residence at Farmland, Randolph County, Indiana, is a native of Tennessee, and was born October 22, 1816; is the third son and fourth child born to Jonathan and Hannah (Pierce) Macy, natives of North Carolina and Virginia respectively, and is of the sixth generation of an English family who early settled on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. David was but four years of age when his parents left Tennessee, on the account of their dislike of the institution of slavery, and settled in Wayne County, Indiana, where they purchased a farm of seventy acres. Their children, including those born in Indiana, were nine in number, and were named Eunice; Ezra; Henry; David; Mary; Isaac; Jethro; William, died in infancy; and Aaron. In 1883 Jonathan and his family moved from Wayne County to Henry County, where he passed his life on a small farm until his death, at the age of seventy-eight years. His life-companion had preceded him to the grave some five years, and both were members of the Society of Friends.
David Macy early assisted his father on the farm and in the store. In 1836 he married Priscilla Luellen, and later learned the trade of wagon Making, which trade he followed from 1841 to 1845, and then sold out and moved to a point sixteen miles north of Kokomo, in Howard County, Indiana, and settled on an eighty acre track, which he had previously purchased. He later sold this property and bought an improved farm, on which the town of New Liberty was afterward plated, of which town he became the first merchant. In the fall of 1853 he sold out and went into business with his father at Farmland, under the style of J. Macy & Sons. Some years later the father retired and David became the successor; later, he took in tow partners, and the firm name was Macy, Mann & Co.; but the firm existed six months only and was succeeded by David Macy. A short time afterward he sold and opened a wagon and blacksmith shop, which he operated until early in the sixties, and then moved to a farm a few miles from town, but a few years later sold out and located on Cabin Creek, where he lived several years, and then became assignee for his brother, Aaron, in a mill property; then opened a hardware store in Farmland, was prosperous in war time, and then for four years tan a tin ship. He then retired to his home on south Maine Street, where he works his garden in peace, living, as it were, "under his own vine and fig tree, with none to molest him or make him afraid." Mr. Mach cast his first presidential vote for William H. Harrison, in 1836; was a Republican until 1888, and then became a prohibitionist, but voted for Blaine under protest. Mr. Macy is a Friend while Mr. Macy has been a Methodist since 1855, and both have led pure Christian lives. They are the parents of ten children, viz: William P., Hannah, Benjamin (a member of the Nineteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, who died in 1865), John W., Eliza Jane, Eunice, Laura A., Regina M., Isaac and Alice. Mr. Macy has been one of the most industrious and useful citizens it has been the good fortune of Randolph County to possess, and one of whom Farmland in particular may well feel proud.
David Macy early assisted his father on the farm and in the store. In 1836 he married Priscilla Luellen, and later learned the trade of wagon Making, which trade he followed from 1841 to 1845, and then sold out and moved to a point sixteen miles north of Kokomo, in Howard County, Indiana, and settled on an eighty acre track, which he had previously purchased. He later sold this property and bought an improved farm, on which the town of New Liberty was afterward plated, of which town he became the first merchant. In the fall of 1853 he sold out and went into business with his father at Farmland, under the style of J. Macy & Sons. Some years later the father retired and David became the successor; later, he took in tow partners, and the firm name was Macy, Mann & Co.; but the firm existed six months only and was succeeded by David Macy. A short time afterward he sold and opened a wagon and blacksmith shop, which he operated until early in the sixties, and then moved to a farm a few miles from town, but a few years later sold out and located on Cabin Creek, where he lived several years, and then became assignee for his brother, Aaron, in a mill property; then opened a hardware store in Farmland, was prosperous in war time, and then for four years tan a tin ship. He then retired to his home on south Maine Street, where he works his garden in peace, living, as it were, "under his own vine and fig tree, with none to molest him or make him afraid." Mr. Mach cast his first presidential vote for William H. Harrison, in 1836; was a Republican until 1888, and then became a prohibitionist, but voted for Blaine under protest. Mr. Macy is a Friend while Mr. Macy has been a Methodist since 1855, and both have led pure Christian lives. They are the parents of ten children, viz: William P., Hannah, Benjamin (a member of the Nineteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, who died in 1865), John W., Eliza Jane, Eunice, Laura A., Regina M., Isaac and Alice. Mr. Macy has been one of the most industrious and useful citizens it has been the good fortune of Randolph County to possess, and one of whom Farmland in particular may well feel proud.
DAVID MACY, retired merchant, farmer, etc., with his residence at Farmland, Randolph County, Indiana, is a native of Tennessee, and was born October 22, 1816; is the third son and fourth child born to Jonathan and Hannah (Pierce) Macy, natives of North Carolina and Virginia respectively, and is of the sixth generation of an English family who early settled on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. David was but four years of age when his parents left Tennessee, on the account of their dislike of the institution of slavery, and settled in Wayne County, Indiana, where they purchased a farm of seventy acres. Their children, including those born in Indiana, were nine in number, and were named Eunice; Ezra; Henry; David; Mary; Isaac; Jethro; William, died in infancy; and Aaron. In 1883 Jonathan and his family moved from Wayne County to Henry County, where he passed his life on a small farm until his death, at the age of seventy-eight years. His life-companion had preceded him to the grave some five years, and both were members of the Society of Friends.
David Macy early assisted his father on the farm and in the store. In 1836 he married Priscilla Luellen, and later learned the trade of wagon Making, which trade he followed from 1841 to 1845, and then sold out and moved to a point sixteen miles north of Kokomo, in Howard County, Indiana, and settled on an eighty acre track, which he had previously purchased. He later sold this property and bought an improved farm, on which the town of New Liberty was afterward plated, of which town he became the first merchant. In the fall of 1853 he sold out and went into business with his father at Farmland, under the style of J. Macy & Sons. Some years later the father retired and David became the successor; later, he took in tow partners, and the firm name was Macy, Mann & Co.; but the firm existed six months only and was succeeded by David Macy. A short time afterward he sold and opened a wagon and blacksmith shop, which he operated until early in the sixties, and then moved to a farm a few miles from town, but a few years later sold out and located on Cabin Creek, where he lived several years, and then became assignee for his brother, Aaron, in a mill property; then opened a hardware store in Farmland, was prosperous in war time, and then for four years tan a tin ship. He then retired to his home on south Maine Street, where he works his garden in peace, living, as it were, "under his own vine and fig tree, with none to molest him or make him afraid." Mr. Mach cast his first presidential vote for William H. Harrison, in 1836; was a Republican until 1888, and then became a prohibitionist, but voted for Blaine under protest. Mr. Macy is a Friend while Mr. Macy has been a Methodist since 1855, and both have led pure Christian lives. They are the parents of ten children, viz: William P., Hannah, Benjamin (a member of the Nineteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, who died in 1865), John W., Eliza Jane, Eunice, Laura A., Regina M., Isaac and Alice. Mr. Macy has been one of the most industrious and useful citizens it has been the good fortune of Randolph County to possess, and one of whom Farmland in particular may well feel proud.
David Macy early assisted his father on the farm and in the store. In 1836 he married Priscilla Luellen, and later learned the trade of wagon Making, which trade he followed from 1841 to 1845, and then sold out and moved to a point sixteen miles north of Kokomo, in Howard County, Indiana, and settled on an eighty acre track, which he had previously purchased. He later sold this property and bought an improved farm, on which the town of New Liberty was afterward plated, of which town he became the first merchant. In the fall of 1853 he sold out and went into business with his father at Farmland, under the style of J. Macy & Sons. Some years later the father retired and David became the successor; later, he took in tow partners, and the firm name was Macy, Mann & Co.; but the firm existed six months only and was succeeded by David Macy. A short time afterward he sold and opened a wagon and blacksmith shop, which he operated until early in the sixties, and then moved to a farm a few miles from town, but a few years later sold out and located on Cabin Creek, where he lived several years, and then became assignee for his brother, Aaron, in a mill property; then opened a hardware store in Farmland, was prosperous in war time, and then for four years tan a tin ship. He then retired to his home on south Maine Street, where he works his garden in peace, living, as it were, "under his own vine and fig tree, with none to molest him or make him afraid." Mr. Mach cast his first presidential vote for William H. Harrison, in 1836; was a Republican until 1888, and then became a prohibitionist, but voted for Blaine under protest. Mr. Macy is a Friend while Mr. Macy has been a Methodist since 1855, and both have led pure Christian lives. They are the parents of ten children, viz: William P., Hannah, Benjamin (a member of the Nineteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, who died in 1865), John W., Eliza Jane, Eunice, Laura A., Regina M., Isaac and Alice. Mr. Macy has been one of the most industrious and useful citizens it has been the good fortune of Randolph County to possess, and one of whom Farmland in particular may well feel proud.
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