DAVID LOVETT, Banker, Geeensburg.
This old and well-known citizen of Decatur County is a descendant of one of the early American families, which settled in Virginia before the beginning of the present century; the English and German nationalities were combined in the blood of his parents, Elias and Sarah (Chenoweth) Lovett, who came from Virginia to Ohio in 1806, and settled on the Miami Purchase (or, as it is sometimes called, the Symmes Purchase), near Dayton, Ohio, where, November 22, 1809, David Lovett was born. When he was but six months old, his father died, and, about five years later, his mother moved to Pendleton County, Ky, and was married to Henry Wicoff; David remained at home, with few advantages for culture, and was employed upon the farm until he was eighteen years of age, when, with his mother's consent, be commenced life for himself.
His first engagement was with a neighboring farmer, where he worked as a common farm-hand, in company with the slaves, for $6.25 a month. At the age of twenty-one years, he entered forty acres of land in Marion County, Ind, and soon after brought his mother and step-father from Kentucky and settled them upon the land, to which he soon added eighty acres more. ...
