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HISTORY OF PARKE COUNTY, INDIANA
(Source:  History of Vigo & Parke County, Indiana - Chicago: H. H. Hill & N. Iddings, 1880, 1310 pgs.
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)

BIOGRAPHIES OF PENN TOWNSHIP
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BEESON, E. W. 303
BUNDY, Eli 290
BYERS, Z. 298
CHAMNESS, Milo 297
COLEMAN, E. T. 304
COX, John 300
DARE, J. S. 298
DEER, Edmund 305
FINNEY, Wesley 287
HEDGES, J. W. 299
HILL, B. F. 294
HILL, N. V. 296
HINSHAW, J. R. 297
HINSHAW, James M. 291
HOBBS, B. C. 299
HOBSON, Milton 289
KELLEY, Robert, Hon. 286
KELLY, Samuel 303
LUTHER, C. W. 306
MARRIS, John 293
MILLER, D. J. 294
MITCHELL, Perley 285
MOORE, John 288
MORRIS, C. F. 293
MORRIS, E. K. 296
MORRIS, Josiah 295
MORRISON, Eli 287
NEWLIN, Eli 286
OVERMAN, Charles 291
PEARSON, Perley 289
PORTER, D. A. 304
RAYL, Franklin 294
REYNOLDS, Joel 288
STOUT, David 296
TEN BROOK, Andrew 295
TOMLINSON, A. D. 303
TUCKER, J. P., M. D. 290
VICKREY, E. S. 306
WEAVER, J. H. 290
WEAVER, W. B. 292
WELCH, W. N. 297
WOODARD, John E. 292
WOODY, W. C. 293
WRIGHT, Robert 288


 
E. W. BEESON

Source:  History of Vigo & Parke County, Indiana - Chicago: H. H. Hill & N. Iddings, 1880, - pg.

PERLEY MITCHELL, deceased, was one of the pioneers of Parke County.  He was born in what is now Sullivan county, New Hampshire, October 13, 1795.  At the age of nine years he went into his father's factory and began to work at carding and fulling machines, and worked with his father until he was eighteen years old, with the exception of the time he spent in the common schools.  At eighteen Mr. Mitchell went to Claremont, New Hampshire, and worked at the same business, dressing and fulling cloth, for two years when he moved to Watertown, New York, where he lived for four years.  He was, however attacked with a disease, very prevalent at that time, called the western fever.  Mr. Mitchell spent the next two years looking for a location visiting in his travels the towns and cities on the lakes and on the Ohio river, and through Indiana.  Finding a tract of land in the reserve in Parke county, Indiana, which suited him, he purchased from the government one hundred and thirty acres, and immediately commenced to clear off a patch and build a cabin.  The primitive condition of Parke county at that time may be inferred from the fact that his nearest neighbors were four miles away.  Deer, wolves and bears were plenty, and several bands of the Miami and Kickapoo Indians were still in the neighborhood, and the whole population of Parke county did not exceed one hundred persons.  In 1825 Mr. Mitchell built a carding machine, and two years after a saw-mill, which he continued to run for a great many years.  In 1838 Mr. Mitchell was married to Miss Phoebe Lewis of Parke county.  After spending his life form 1821 until 1874 in Parke county, he removed to Terre Haute, Vigo county and July 20, 1878, he died at his old homestead while on a visit to his sons, who still occupy the farm where the father settled when he came to the county.
Source:  History of Vigo & Parke County, Indiana - Chicago: H. H. Hill & N. Iddings, 1880, - pg. 285
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