ERNEST D. POWER.
No more attractive farm can be found in all Decatur county than the tract of one hundred and ninety acres in Fugit township, owned by Ernest D. Power, an enterprising young farmer and regarded as one of the most successful in that county. Not only efficient, industrious and progressive in agricultural methods, but the same things may be said of him as a citizen, and this is not at all strange when we remember that personal habits and personal methods apply quite as much to one's rank and value as a citizen as they do to one's rank and value as a farmer, lawyer or business man. Of course, his father before him, who is now living retired, was a successful farmer, the son learning the fundamentals of correct farming from the father. His success in agriculture is due partially to the fact that he has been able to combine stock raising with crop raising and as a mule, hog and cattle raiser has no superior in this county.
Ernest D. Power, farmer and stockman of Fugit township, Decatur county, Indiana, was born on November 1, 1871, in Milroy, Rush county, Indiana, and is the son of George and Lurissa (Crawford) Power, natives of Rush county, and now living retired.
The father was the son of the late John Power, a native of Kentucky and an early settler in Rush county. George and Lurissa (Crawford) Power have had three children,
- May, who lives at home;
- Ray C, who is a farmer near Milroy, and
- Ernest D., the subject of this sketch.
Immediately after finishing his education in the schools of Milroy, Indiana, Mr. Power purchased a farm in Rush county, in 1894, consisting of two hundred and five acres, and thirteen years later, in October, 1907, removed to Fugit township, Decatur county, purchasing his present farm at that time. He has been living in Decatur county, therefore, for about eight years, and has come to be well known in Fugit township, and in fact throughout all Decatur county, being related by marriage and otherwise to some of the oldest families in Decatur county.
Mr. Power was first married, in 1895, to Mary McCracken, the daughter of H. T. McCracken, an old settler of Fugit township. By this marriage he had one child, Ruth, aged fifteen years, who is a student in the Clarksburg high school. Mrs. Power died in October, 1910, and in October, 1911, Mr. Power was married again to Leila Logan, the daughter of Nathan M. and Rebecca (Martin) Logan,
...Both the Power family and the Logan family are members of the United Presbyterian church at Springhill.
... Ernest D. Power is independent politically. No prettier nor more attractive spot can be found in Decatur county than the Fugit township farm of Ernest D. Power. Mr. Power is proud of this farm, as he has every right to be, and the people of Fugit township are also proud of it, as they also have a right to be. Not only do they point with pride to the beauty of this farm, but the people of this township admire the rugged honesty, well-rounded efficiency and genial personality of its owner and one of their foremost citizens.
