THOMAS H. FRENCH
The occupation of farming, to which the entire business life of Thomas H. French, one of the well-known and popular citizens Gibson County, has been devoted, is the oldest pursuit of a livelihood of mankind and the one in which he will ever be the most independent. His name has long been connected with the general growth of Gibson county, of which he is a native and where his entire life has been passed. While primarily attending to his own interests, his life has been largely devoted to his fellow man, having been untiring in his efforts to inspire a proper respect for law and order and ready at all times to uplift humanity along civic and social lines.
Thomas H. French, one of the leading farmers and influential citizens of White River township, Gibson county, Indiana, was born in this county on June 2, i860, and is the son of Lucius S. and Margaret (Jerauld) French, both of whom were natives of Gibson county. The parents of Lucius French were among the earliest settlers of the county, having come here in 1818 and obtained a tract of land which they cleared and converted into a homestead, now known as the old French farm. This was about one mile north of the town of Patoka. Here their son Lucius was born and raised and in this same neighborhood was the family of Jerauld whose daughter, Margaret, Lucius French married, and they became the parents of the immediate subject of this sketch. Lucius French died April 17, 1886, and his wife lived until 1903, having passed her entire life in Gibson county. Lucius French's father was a leading man in his community in his day, being considered one of the most progressive citizens. In the year 1836 he built the first two-story brick residence in the county and in the year 1840 he built a large bank barn, the timbers of which were so heavy that it required the efforts of seventy-five men to raise the structure. Both this house and barn are still standing in an excellent state of preservation, due to the care exercised in selecting the materials going into their construction, the size of the timbers much surpassing anything in use today.
Thomas H. French was the third child in a family of nine children and received his schooling in the district schools of the county. When quite young, he commenced assisting with the work around the farm and remained at home until the age of twenty-six years, when he was united in marriage with Mary E. Daugherty on September 1, 1886. She is the daughter of Joseph and Kate (Rhardon) Daugherty, both natives of Ireland, who had settled in Gibson county a number of years before. At the beginning of the Civil War, Joseph Daugherty enlisted for service. To Thomas H. French and wife ha\e been born six children, namely: Eunice, Mary, Isabell, Grace. Laura and Elizabeth, all of which except Mary are at home, though Isabelle is engaged in teaching in the public schools. Mary is the wife of Ray Watson.
Mr. French and his family reside on his farm of one hundred and forty acres of finely located land, adjoining the corporation line of the town of Patoka and here he engages in general farming, paying especial attention to the raising of melons for the market. In this branch of agriculture he has been engaged for the past twenty years, increasing his efforts from year to year, until he now has about sixty acres in melons each year and for the last three years he has been raising quite a number in the beds. He has made for himself quite a reputation in this line of endeavor and has been eminently successful.
Politically, Mr. French gives his support to the Progressive party. while his religious membership is with the Presbyterian church in whose welfare he is sincerely interested. His fraternal affiliation is with the Tribe of Ben-Hur and the Modern Woodmen of America.
Mr. French is numbered among the progressive agriculturists and public spirited citizens of this county and is one of the substantial men of his community. Endowed by nature with strong mental powers and possessing the courage and energy to direct his faculties in the proper channels, he early became a man of resourceful capacity, as the management of his affairs testifies. He has met every issue of life squarely and his life-long residence here has placed him high in the estimation of all who know him by reason of his sterling worth.
SOURCE: History of Gibson County, Indiana : her people, industries and institutions, with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families
by Stormont, Gil R
Pages 988-989
Publication date 1914
Topics Gibson County (Ind.) -- History, Gibson County (Ind.) -- Biography, genealogy
Publisher Indianapolis: B.F. Bowen
The occupation of farming, to which the entire business life of Thomas H. French, one of the well-known and popular citizens Gibson County, has been devoted, is the oldest pursuit of a livelihood of mankind and the one in which he will ever be the most independent. His name has long been connected with the general growth of Gibson county, of which he is a native and where his entire life has been passed. While primarily attending to his own interests, his life has been largely devoted to his fellow man, having been untiring in his efforts to inspire a proper respect for law and order and ready at all times to uplift humanity along civic and social lines.
Thomas H. French, one of the leading farmers and influential citizens of White River township, Gibson county, Indiana, was born in this county on June 2, i860, and is the son of Lucius S. and Margaret (Jerauld) French, both of whom were natives of Gibson county. The parents of Lucius French were among the earliest settlers of the county, having come here in 1818 and obtained a tract of land which they cleared and converted into a homestead, now known as the old French farm. This was about one mile north of the town of Patoka. Here their son Lucius was born and raised and in this same neighborhood was the family of Jerauld whose daughter, Margaret, Lucius French married, and they became the parents of the immediate subject of this sketch. Lucius French died April 17, 1886, and his wife lived until 1903, having passed her entire life in Gibson county. Lucius French's father was a leading man in his community in his day, being considered one of the most progressive citizens. In the year 1836 he built the first two-story brick residence in the county and in the year 1840 he built a large bank barn, the timbers of which were so heavy that it required the efforts of seventy-five men to raise the structure. Both this house and barn are still standing in an excellent state of preservation, due to the care exercised in selecting the materials going into their construction, the size of the timbers much surpassing anything in use today.
Thomas H. French was the third child in a family of nine children and received his schooling in the district schools of the county. When quite young, he commenced assisting with the work around the farm and remained at home until the age of twenty-six years, when he was united in marriage with Mary E. Daugherty on September 1, 1886. She is the daughter of Joseph and Kate (Rhardon) Daugherty, both natives of Ireland, who had settled in Gibson county a number of years before. At the beginning of the Civil War, Joseph Daugherty enlisted for service. To Thomas H. French and wife ha\e been born six children, namely: Eunice, Mary, Isabell, Grace. Laura and Elizabeth, all of which except Mary are at home, though Isabelle is engaged in teaching in the public schools. Mary is the wife of Ray Watson.
Mr. French and his family reside on his farm of one hundred and forty acres of finely located land, adjoining the corporation line of the town of Patoka and here he engages in general farming, paying especial attention to the raising of melons for the market. In this branch of agriculture he has been engaged for the past twenty years, increasing his efforts from year to year, until he now has about sixty acres in melons each year and for the last three years he has been raising quite a number in the beds. He has made for himself quite a reputation in this line of endeavor and has been eminently successful.
Politically, Mr. French gives his support to the Progressive party. while his religious membership is with the Presbyterian church in whose welfare he is sincerely interested. His fraternal affiliation is with the Tribe of Ben-Hur and the Modern Woodmen of America.
Mr. French is numbered among the progressive agriculturists and public spirited citizens of this county and is one of the substantial men of his community. Endowed by nature with strong mental powers and possessing the courage and energy to direct his faculties in the proper channels, he early became a man of resourceful capacity, as the management of his affairs testifies. He has met every issue of life squarely and his life-long residence here has placed him high in the estimation of all who know him by reason of his sterling worth.
SOURCE: History of Gibson County, Indiana : her people, industries and institutions, with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families
by Stormont, Gil R
Pages 988-989
Publication date 1914
Topics Gibson County (Ind.) -- History, Gibson County (Ind.) -- Biography, genealogy
Publisher Indianapolis: B.F. Bowen
THOMAS H. FRENCH
The occupation of farming, to which the entire business life of Thomas H. French, one of the well-known and popular citizens Gibson County, has been devoted, is the oldest pursuit of a livelihood of mankind and the one in which he will ever be the most independent. His name has long been connected with the general growth of Gibson county, of which he is a native and where his entire life has been passed. While primarily attending to his own interests, his life has been largely devoted to his fellow man, having been untiring in his efforts to inspire a proper respect for law and order and ready at all times to uplift humanity along civic and social lines.
Thomas H. French, one of the leading farmers and influential citizens of White River township, Gibson county, Indiana, was born in this county on June 2, i860, and is the son of Lucius S. and Margaret (Jerauld) French, both of whom were natives of Gibson county. The parents of Lucius French were among the earliest settlers of the county, having come here in 1818 and obtained a tract of land which they cleared and converted into a homestead, now known as the old French farm. This was about one mile north of the town of Patoka. Here their son Lucius was born and raised and in this same neighborhood was the family of Jerauld whose daughter, Margaret, Lucius French married, and they became the parents of the immediate subject of this sketch. Lucius French died April 17, 1886, and his wife lived until 1903, having passed her entire life in Gibson county. Lucius French's father was a leading man in his community in his day, being considered one of the most progressive citizens. In the year 1836 he built the first two-story brick residence in the county and in the year 1840 he built a large bank barn, the timbers of which were so heavy that it required the efforts of seventy-five men to raise the structure. Both this house and barn are still standing in an excellent state of preservation, due to the care exercised in selecting the materials going into their construction, the size of the timbers much surpassing anything in use today.
Thomas H. French was the third child in a family of nine children and received his schooling in the district schools of the county. When quite young, he commenced assisting with the work around the farm and remained at home until the age of twenty-six years, when he was united in marriage with Mary E. Daugherty on September 1, 1886. She is the daughter of Joseph and Kate (Rhardon) Daugherty, both natives of Ireland, who had settled in Gibson county a number of years before. At the beginning of the Civil War, Joseph Daugherty enlisted for service. To Thomas H. French and wife ha\e been born six children, namely: Eunice, Mary, Isabell, Grace. Laura and Elizabeth, all of which except Mary are at home, though Isabelle is engaged in teaching in the public schools. Mary is the wife of Ray Watson.
Mr. French and his family reside on his farm of one hundred and forty acres of finely located land, adjoining the corporation line of the town of Patoka and here he engages in general farming, paying especial attention to the raising of melons for the market. In this branch of agriculture he has been engaged for the past twenty years, increasing his efforts from year to year, until he now has about sixty acres in melons each year and for the last three years he has been raising quite a number in the beds. He has made for himself quite a reputation in this line of endeavor and has been eminently successful.
Politically, Mr. French gives his support to the Progressive party. while his religious membership is with the Presbyterian church in whose welfare he is sincerely interested. His fraternal affiliation is with the Tribe of Ben-Hur and the Modern Woodmen of America.
Mr. French is numbered among the progressive agriculturists and public spirited citizens of this county and is one of the substantial men of his community. Endowed by nature with strong mental powers and possessing the courage and energy to direct his faculties in the proper channels, he early became a man of resourceful capacity, as the management of his affairs testifies. He has met every issue of life squarely and his life-long residence here has placed him high in the estimation of all who know him by reason of his sterling worth.
SOURCE: History of Gibson County, Indiana : her people, industries and institutions, with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families
by Stormont, Gil R
Pages 988-989
Publication date 1914
Topics Gibson County (Ind.) -- History, Gibson County (Ind.) -- Biography, genealogy
Publisher Indianapolis: B.F. Bowen
The occupation of farming, to which the entire business life of Thomas H. French, one of the well-known and popular citizens Gibson County, has been devoted, is the oldest pursuit of a livelihood of mankind and the one in which he will ever be the most independent. His name has long been connected with the general growth of Gibson county, of which he is a native and where his entire life has been passed. While primarily attending to his own interests, his life has been largely devoted to his fellow man, having been untiring in his efforts to inspire a proper respect for law and order and ready at all times to uplift humanity along civic and social lines.
Thomas H. French, one of the leading farmers and influential citizens of White River township, Gibson county, Indiana, was born in this county on June 2, i860, and is the son of Lucius S. and Margaret (Jerauld) French, both of whom were natives of Gibson county. The parents of Lucius French were among the earliest settlers of the county, having come here in 1818 and obtained a tract of land which they cleared and converted into a homestead, now known as the old French farm. This was about one mile north of the town of Patoka. Here their son Lucius was born and raised and in this same neighborhood was the family of Jerauld whose daughter, Margaret, Lucius French married, and they became the parents of the immediate subject of this sketch. Lucius French died April 17, 1886, and his wife lived until 1903, having passed her entire life in Gibson county. Lucius French's father was a leading man in his community in his day, being considered one of the most progressive citizens. In the year 1836 he built the first two-story brick residence in the county and in the year 1840 he built a large bank barn, the timbers of which were so heavy that it required the efforts of seventy-five men to raise the structure. Both this house and barn are still standing in an excellent state of preservation, due to the care exercised in selecting the materials going into their construction, the size of the timbers much surpassing anything in use today.
Thomas H. French was the third child in a family of nine children and received his schooling in the district schools of the county. When quite young, he commenced assisting with the work around the farm and remained at home until the age of twenty-six years, when he was united in marriage with Mary E. Daugherty on September 1, 1886. She is the daughter of Joseph and Kate (Rhardon) Daugherty, both natives of Ireland, who had settled in Gibson county a number of years before. At the beginning of the Civil War, Joseph Daugherty enlisted for service. To Thomas H. French and wife ha\e been born six children, namely: Eunice, Mary, Isabell, Grace. Laura and Elizabeth, all of which except Mary are at home, though Isabelle is engaged in teaching in the public schools. Mary is the wife of Ray Watson.
Mr. French and his family reside on his farm of one hundred and forty acres of finely located land, adjoining the corporation line of the town of Patoka and here he engages in general farming, paying especial attention to the raising of melons for the market. In this branch of agriculture he has been engaged for the past twenty years, increasing his efforts from year to year, until he now has about sixty acres in melons each year and for the last three years he has been raising quite a number in the beds. He has made for himself quite a reputation in this line of endeavor and has been eminently successful.
Politically, Mr. French gives his support to the Progressive party. while his religious membership is with the Presbyterian church in whose welfare he is sincerely interested. His fraternal affiliation is with the Tribe of Ben-Hur and the Modern Woodmen of America.
Mr. French is numbered among the progressive agriculturists and public spirited citizens of this county and is one of the substantial men of his community. Endowed by nature with strong mental powers and possessing the courage and energy to direct his faculties in the proper channels, he early became a man of resourceful capacity, as the management of his affairs testifies. He has met every issue of life squarely and his life-long residence here has placed him high in the estimation of all who know him by reason of his sterling worth.
SOURCE: History of Gibson County, Indiana : her people, industries and institutions, with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families
by Stormont, Gil R
Pages 988-989
Publication date 1914
Topics Gibson County (Ind.) -- History, Gibson County (Ind.) -- Biography, genealogy
Publisher Indianapolis: B.F. Bowen
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