Tipton-Henry County IN Archives Biographies.....Van Buskirk, Jehu 1826 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   JEHU VAN BUSKIRK, Deputy Surveyor and ex-Surveyor, is a native of Henry
County, Ind., and was born September 22, 1826. He is the son of Joseph Van
Buskirk. Our subject engaged in teaching the early part of his life, and was
elected to the office of Surveyor of Tipton County by the Democratic party in
1872, and was twice re-elected, serving six successive years. He was previously
elected in 1856, and served one term, and has also been Deputy Surveyor much of
the time since. During the falls of the last four years, Mr. V. has operated a
sorghum factory, and does the grinding by steam. He owns a good home of
twenty-six acres of fertile land, with eighteen acres under cultivation. He
heats his sitting room by register from the cellar below. His barn has a brick
basement, and is arranged so that he can drive into the second story. The roof
is self-supporting, and the barn has no timbers in the way of storage. Mr. Van
Buskirk was married, in June, 1861, to Miss Martha Small, who died about a year
after their marriage. In July, 1868, he was married to Elizabeth Carr, of this
county. Mr. Van Buskirk has & family of three children-Sallie, Mamie and Cora.
About the year 1852, he became a Christian, and about the same time signed a
temperance pledge and a tobacco pledge. He has since faithfully kept all his
pledges. In the winter of 1855-56, he attended a course of medical lectures in
Cincinnati, since which time he has acted as his own physician.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.

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