Indiana and Indianans - a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood (1919) (14577464348)

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Title: Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924 Kemper, General William Harrison, 1839-
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Chicago and New York : The American historical society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center



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onary war. James, son of John, moved to Kentucky in 1808, and was a farmer and died in Shelby County .William Barnett, father of Colonel Bar-nett, came to Indiana in 1833 and was a pioneer in Hendricks County, where he acquired land from the government, and it was on that farm Colonel Barnett was born. William Barnett was unusually well educated for his time and was a teacher as well as a farmer. He gave each of his children the best obtainable educa-tional advantages and did much for the general cause of educational enlighten-ment in his home county. Colonel Bar-nett's father lived to the age of seventy-one and his mother died at the age of seventy-nine. As a boy Colonel Barnett attended the schools of his native township and also the old Danville Academy. For one year he taught school. In 1871 he entered As-bury, now DePauw, University, and as a member of the class of 1875, completed his freshman year in that institution. About that time upon the recommendation of Gen. John Coburn, then a congressman,
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