Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Hushaw, Henry 1812 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Henry Hushaw, farmer, Attica, was born in Ross county, Ohio, in 1812. His
mother, Susanna (Wilfong), died when he was a lad, and in 1828 his father,
Samuel, removed to Fountain county, and began a home in the southeast corner of
Logan township, where he lived till his death, which occurred a few years after.
At the date of his settlement here the country was destitute of schools and
churches. Between his place and Newtown, which was merely staked out, there was
not a house; and between there and Attica there was only Judge Milford's place
and a few houses close to the village. People got grinding done at the mouth of
the Little Shawnee, where John McCune lived in a small round-log cabin, and ran
a corn-cracker, which could be approached only on horseback. A little later
McMillin got his mill to running, and after that the pioneers had much of their
wheat manufactured into flour to haul to Chicago to be exchanged for salt and
groceries. Wheat and corn and meal also were hauled there in great quantities
from this region. At this period tanning was done at Newtown by Peter Shultz.
While great improvements have been made in the condition of the people, a very
unhappy change has taken place in their social characteristics. Once, freedom,
hospitality and generous treatment abounded, and hearty cheer and welcome were
extended alike to neighbor and stranger. But it is not so now. This contrast is
universally remarked by old settlers, and is to them a subject of most sorrowful
reflection. To use Mr. Hushaw's own words, "if men had been as unsocial and
selfish then as now, they would have been run out of the country. Everybody was
ready and willing to lend everybody a helping hand." This state of things can be
deplored, not remedied. The more independent men become of one another, rarer
will become the beautiful exhibitions of human kindness. Mr. Hushaw was married
in 1844 to Julia Woods, who was born March 1, 1827. They have four children:
Sarah Amanda, born March 6, 1845, wife of David Overbay, of Neosho county,
Kansas; Caroline, May 6, 1849, wife of John Potter; Alice, February 27, 1852;
and Charles, January 17, 1866. Mr. Hushaw has lived here since his first
settlement in the country, except the last two years he was in Kansas with his
family. He is a democrat.

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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