Carroll County IN Archives Biographies.....Albaugh, Amos 1859 - 
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Author: John C. Odell (1916)

AMOS ALBAUGH.

   The gentleman whose name is mentioned above is descended from a line of fine
old pioneer stock and whose ancestors for generations back have been Americans,
all possessing American thrift and industry. Amos Albaugh has devoted his
energies and talents to an honorable career, and has long been recognized as
being part of the backbone of the citizenship of the county in which he has
always lived.

   Amos Albaugh, farmer, Camden, Indiana, was born on November 26, 1859, in
Monroe township, Carroll county, and is a son of Solomon and Eliza (Salsbury)
Albaugh. He received a good public-school education and remained under his
father's roof until he was married, after which he settled where he now lives,
renting for five years, and then buying outright. His present farm, consisting
of eighty acres, is located three miles from Camden and two miles from Flora,
Indiana. Politically, Mr. Albaugh is a stanch Republican, having always voted in
the interest of that party, while his religious membership is with the
Presbyterian church at Flora, where he is one of the deacons in the church.
Fraternally, he belongs to Flora Lodge No. 605, Free and Accepted Masons.

   Solomon Albaugh, father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Preble
county, Ohio, and was the son of John Albaugh. His wife was Eliza Salsbury. They
lived on the home place all their lives, Solomon Albaugh dying on February 8,
1903, and his wife, Eliza, died on October 16, 1913. They were the parents of
nine children: Margaret E., John H., Amos, James R., Lilcoln, [sic] Emma,
Solomon F., D. E. and Ida J. Margaret E. became the wife of David A. Spittler,
and lives at Chattanooga, Tennessee; John H. makes his home at Spokane,
Washington; James R. lives at Bringhurst, Indiana; Lincoln lives at Delphi,
Indiana; Emma J. was married to William Booth; Solomon F. is at Flora; D. E.
also lives at Flora, and Ida is the wife of Andrew Replogle, and lives in
Wisconsin.

   John Albaugh, the paternal grandfather, came to Ohio from Juniata county,
Pennsylvania, and was a son of Stephen Albaugh. He and two of his brothers
settled at an early date in Preble county, Ohio, near Eaton. Mr. Albaugh came to
Indiana in 1836, when his son Solomon was two years of age, and entered eighty
acres of land in Carroll county, where he and his wife spent the remainder of
their lives. Politically, he was a strong believer in the policies of the
Republican party, and in religion, his sympathies were with the Lutheran church,
taking an active interest in church work nearly all his life. John Albaugh was
united in marriage with Rebecca Ridenower, daughter of Samuel Ridenower, of
Preble county, Ohio, whose ancestors were Lutherans as far back as can be
traced. To John and Rebecca Albaugh were born four sons and four daughters, of
whom Solomon was the fifth child, and who remained on the eighty acres and
farmed it until his death.

   The immigrant, ancestor of the Albaugh family in America and the first of
whom there is any record, was John Albaugh, who came to this country in 1734
with his four sons, John Wilhelm, Zachariah, the great-grandfather of the
subject of this sketch; John Geehart and John Peter.

   James and Elizabeth Salsbury, the maternal grandparents, came from Preble
county, Ohio, at an early date.

   Samuel Ridenower, the paternal great-grandfather, was a native of Preble
county, Ohio, as was also his wife.

   Amos Albaugh was united in marriage on May 13, 1882, with Mary M. Cline,
daughter of Henry C. and Sarah E. (Cheve) Cline. She was born on March 4, 1860,
in Jackson township, this county, and attended the district schools. This union
has been blessed with three children, Everett W., a graduate of the high school,
lives on the home place; Mary Ruth, also a high school graduate and later a
student at Valparaiso University, is teaching school in Jackson township; Orpha
Marie is in her third year at high school.

   Mr. Albaugh is a gentleman of genial and unassuming manner and his every
influence is freely extended for the moral advance of the community where he
resides.


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Biographical Section of
HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY INDIANA

ITS PEOPLE, INDUSTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS
BY
JOHN C ODELL
With Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and
Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families

ILLUSTRATED
1916
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY, Inc.
Indianapolis, Indiana


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