Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Dove, David W. 1846 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   David W. Dove, farmer, Newtown. James Dove Sr. landed in Virginia from the
Highlands of Scotland in 1767, a lad of eighteen years. He married in Frederick
county, Virginia, in 1772, and reared four children. The three whose names are
given were John, James, and Madison. James Dove Sr. served six years under Gen.
Morgan in the war of the revolution. The family of his son Madison lives in
Virginia. His second son, James, unmarried, was a captain in a Virginia regiment
in the war of 1812, and lost his life in Canada. The eldest, John, went into the
regular army, and was one of the garrison at Covolt station, a frontier outpost.
At this place he was married in 1804, about the expiration of his enlistment. In
the second war with Great Britain he was a captain in the Ohio militia. His
children were Jonathan, Abram, James, Elizabeth, Methuel, and Lucy. In
September, 1830, this family, leaving Hamilton county, Ohio (except Jonathan,
who came two years later), arrived in Fountain county, and settled in Shawnee
township. The subject of this sketch was the son of Abram and Sarah (Cook) Dove,
and was born in Richland township, February 17, 1846. His father ran a saw-mill
most of the time when he was not mining. He made two trips to the Pacific coast;
the first time, when the gold fever broke out, he crossed the plains with oxen.
He went by steamer the last time. While in California and Washington he was
engaged in mining, packing and teaming. He returned in 1861, having been there
four years each time. From 1863 to 1871 our subject was dealing in horses; he
bought in Indiana and sold in Chicago, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Since then he
has been farming, and running a saw-mill which he owns on Coal creek. His farm
contains 104 acres; three-fourths of it are reduced to cultivation. He is a
greenbacker in politics. Mr. Dove's half-sister, Ellen Rohrer, who lived many
years in Oregon, but now resides in Indianapolis, is the inventor and proprietor
of the new remedy for the lungs which is finding extensive use and has become a
standard medicine. Mr. Dove was married February 6, 1868, to Sarah Margaret
Bennett, daughter of Abraham Bennett. She was born May 2, 1849. Their three
children were born as follows: Mazena Ellen, April 17, 1869; Deborah B., August
19, 1875; Herman A., August 21, 1877. Both parents have been members of the
Union Cemetery (New Light) church seven or eight years. Mr. Dove was
Sabbath-school superintendent for four years during a period of great interest
and successful labor in the church.

Additional Comments:
Richland Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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