Person:John Erwin (36)

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John Erwin
b.Est 1782
d.19 Nov 1849 Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States
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  1. Lydia ErwinAbt 1814 -
  2. John W ErwinAbt 1816 -
  3. Susan B ErwinAbt 1818 -
  4. Samuel Erwin1820 -
  5. Edwin ErwinAbt 1822 -
  6. William P ErwinAbt 1825 -
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Name John Erwin
Gender Male
Birth? Est 1782
Marriage to Elizabeth Platt
Residence[1] From 1828 to 1833 Wayne Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States
Death[1] 19 Nov 1849 Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wayne Township, in History of Wayne County, Indiana: together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens, history of Indiana and the Northwest Territory, embracing accounts of the prehistoric races, aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a brief review of its civil, political and military history (1884). (Chicago : Inter-state Pub., , 1884)
    2:778.

    ... [John Erwin] ... of Irish [descent] ...came to Wayne County, Ind., in 1828, and
    bought 200 acres of land in what is now Wayne Township. At the end of five
    years he sold his farm, and established an iron foundry in Lafayette, Ind.,
    doing a successful business for several years. He at one time owned 1,000
    acres in Randolph County. Ind. He died Nov. 19, 1849, in his sixty-eighth
    year. His wife died July 4, 1846, aged sixty years. They had twelve children,
    six still living---Lydia, John W., Susan B., Samuel, Edwin and William P.

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