Lewis Pence was born in Virgina and was a son of Lewis and Elizabeth Pence, natives of Germany, who first located in Virginia on coming to America and later emigrated to Champaign county, Ohio, were they passed the remainder of their lives.
Lewis Pence attended school in Virginia until taken, while still a boy, to Champaign county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood and was married in 1823. In 1842 he came to Grant County,settled one mile north of Marion and there made his home until 1845, when he came to Richland township and in 1846 entered one hundred and sixty acres of woodland in section 27, where he was compelled to clear a space large enough for the erection of a log cabin. He was percerving, however, cleared off all the timber from his original entry and added to it until he at one time owned one thousand and one hundred acres of fine farm land, and was considered one of the best farmers in the township. In politics he was first a Whig, but on the disintegration of that party became identified with the Republicans and always took a lively interest in his party's success. On his homestead his wife passed away on September 1, 1874, and his own lamented death took place on February 1, 1875.
Source: Biographical Memoirs of Grant County, Indiana. Chicago. The Bowen Publishing Co. 1901
Lewis Pence attended school in Virginia until taken, while still a boy, to Champaign county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood and was married in 1823. In 1842 he came to Grant County,settled one mile north of Marion and there made his home until 1845, when he came to Richland township and in 1846 entered one hundred and sixty acres of woodland in section 27, where he was compelled to clear a space large enough for the erection of a log cabin. He was percerving, however, cleared off all the timber from his original entry and added to it until he at one time owned one thousand and one hundred acres of fine farm land, and was considered one of the best farmers in the township. In politics he was first a Whig, but on the disintegration of that party became identified with the Republicans and always took a lively interest in his party's success. On his homestead his wife passed away on September 1, 1874, and his own lamented death took place on February 1, 1875.
Source: Biographical Memoirs of Grant County, Indiana. Chicago. The Bowen Publishing Co. 1901
Lewis Pence was born in Virgina and was a son of Lewis and Elizabeth Pence, natives of Germany, who first located in Virginia on coming to America and later emigrated to Champaign county, Ohio, were they passed the remainder of their lives.
Lewis Pence attended school in Virginia until taken, while still a boy, to Champaign county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood and was married in 1823. In 1842 he came to Grant County,settled one mile north of Marion and there made his home until 1845, when he came to Richland township and in 1846 entered one hundred and sixty acres of woodland in section 27, where he was compelled to clear a space large enough for the erection of a log cabin. He was percerving, however, cleared off all the timber from his original entry and added to it until he at one time owned one thousand and one hundred acres of fine farm land, and was considered one of the best farmers in the township. In politics he was first a Whig, but on the disintegration of that party became identified with the Republicans and always took a lively interest in his party's success. On his homestead his wife passed away on September 1, 1874, and his own lamented death took place on February 1, 1875.
Source: Biographical Memoirs of Grant County, Indiana. Chicago. The Bowen Publishing Co. 1901
Lewis Pence attended school in Virginia until taken, while still a boy, to Champaign county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood and was married in 1823. In 1842 he came to Grant County,settled one mile north of Marion and there made his home until 1845, when he came to Richland township and in 1846 entered one hundred and sixty acres of woodland in section 27, where he was compelled to clear a space large enough for the erection of a log cabin. He was percerving, however, cleared off all the timber from his original entry and added to it until he at one time owned one thousand and one hundred acres of fine farm land, and was considered one of the best farmers in the township. In politics he was first a Whig, but on the disintegration of that party became identified with the Republicans and always took a lively interest in his party's success. On his homestead his wife passed away on September 1, 1874, and his own lamented death took place on February 1, 1875.
Source: Biographical Memoirs of Grant County, Indiana. Chicago. The Bowen Publishing Co. 1901
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