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Counties of La Grange and Noble, Indiana:
historical and biographical
Authors: J H Herrick; John Paul Jones;
         Weston A. Goodspeed; R H Herrick
Published: Chicago, F A Battey & Co., 1882

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ALSPAUGH, Peter  - Greenfield Township
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Peter Alspaugh was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, April 21, 1841, son of
Philip and Mary A. Alspaugh.  They removed from Pennsylvania, their native
State, to Ohio, thence to Indiana in the fall of 1854, settling on a farm
in Johnson Township, this county, where Philip Alspaugh died in August,
1880.  Mrs. Mary Alspaugh is yet living on the old homestead at the age of
seventy-six. Peter Alspaugh received a common education, and October 14,
1861, enlisted in Company H, Forty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and
participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, seige of
Corinth, Perryville and Stone River.  At the latter place he was wounded,
December 31, 1862, and received his discharge September 9, 1863.  He was
united in marriage, November 11, 1866, to Miss Martha J. Swihart, a native
of Ohio, and the daughter of Daniel and Sarah Swihart, who reside in this
township.  In 1868, Mr. Alspaugh bought eighty acres of his present improved
farm of 150 acres, having previously lived on a rent farm on Pretty
Prairie.  Mrs. Alspaugh departed this life February 2, 1881, at the age of
theirty-five years.  She was a member of the M.E. Church and left two
children - Luella and Lyoll.  Mr. Alspaugh belongs to the Methodist Church,
and is a good farmer and public-spirited citizen.

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