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Below is a sample of a family biography included in the History of Daviess County, Indiana published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1886.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details in a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

ABRAM T. BANTA, one of the early settlers of Daviess County, Ind., is a son of Henry and Jane (Fulton) Banta, and was born in the county where he now resides in 1823. The parents were natives of Kentucky, the father born in 1786. The mother was an own cousin of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat. They came to Indiana in 1823 and located in Daviess County, where they purchased 160 acres of timber land. The father died in 1872, and the mother in 1833. Abram obtained his education in the subscription schools of early days, and when twenty-two years old began working for himself on rented farms. Ten years later he went in debt for the greater part of eighty acres of land. By hard work and good management he not only paid for this, but added eighty acres more, making a good farm of 160 acres, 120 of which are under cultivation. In 1845 he was married to Eliza A. Stephens, born in 1830, daughter of William and Elizabeth (McCracken) Stephens. To their union the following children were born: Elizabeth J., William W., Susan D., Martha A., Glen D., Mary E., Henry D., Sarah E., Charley A. and Thomas S. Mr. Banta served nine months in the late war in Company F, Forty-fourth Indiana Infantry. He is a Republican, and he and wife are members of the Christian Church.

This family biography is one of 260 biographies included in the History of Daviess County, Indiana published in 1886.  For the complete description, click here: Daviess County, Indiana History, Genealogy and Maps

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