Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2012, All Rights Reserved U.S. Data Repository Please read U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the US Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= U.S. Data Repository NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization. Non-commercial organizations desiring to use this material must obtain the consent of the transcriber prior to use. Individuals desiring to use this material in their own research may do so. ========================================================================= Formatted by U.S. Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== 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 =========================================================================== GILHAMS, Aaron - Greenfield Township =========================================================================== Aaron Gilhams is a native of Chester County, Penn., born March 11, 1825. His parents, Aaron and Sarah Gilhams, were natives of the same State, and residents of Sturgis, Mich., at the time of their death. Aaron Gilhams lived in Sturgis from the age of ten to twenty-one. In 1850, he went to California, and three years worked in the gold mines there, clearing $100 per month. His companion from Sturgis, Elder Day, was killed by the Indians. In 1853, having returned, he bought 120 acres of his present farm of 240 acres. He is a thorough farmer, and has cultivated 120 rods of hedge fence. Mr. Gilhams was first married at Burr Oak, Mich., in November, 1858, to Mary Smiley, a native of Ohio; her parents also were natives of Ohio. Her father, George Smiley, died in Steuben County, Ind., and her mother, Catharine Smiley, at Indianapolis. The present Mrs. Gilhams was Sevilla Keim, and came with her parents, Elias and Mary Keim, to this township, where they are yet residents. Mr. Gilhams has two sons - Clarence and Herbert - both engaged in school-teaching. ===========================================================================