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Subject: A.J. Hart-Biography(Ireland)
Date: 3 Mar 2005 23:18:22 -0700

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Surnames: Hart, King, Hopkins
Classification: Biography

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A.J. Hart, was born near Washington, in Daviess County, Ind., and is one of eleven children born to the marriage of James Hart and Sarah King. The father was born on the Atlantic Ocean in 1793, coming from Ireland to America. His parents settled first in Tenneesee, and then in North Carolina, where the father was married. They came from there to Indiana, and here our subject was born, and here our subject was born November 15, 1831. His mother was a native of middle Tennessee, died when he was about twelve years of age and he lived with his father until eighteeen years of age, when he began doing for himself. He first began working on the Wabash & Erie Canal, and in six months time he was promoted to superintendent and was given a force of seventy-five to one-hundred men. Two years later, he with sixteen men came to Daviess County, Ind. and commenced working on the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. In the fall of 1853 he quit this work, and commenced farming on the land wher!
e he now lives. February 8, 1854, he was married to Mary, daughter of Matthew and Margaret (Hopkins) Arthur. She was born November 5, 1827. He cast his first vote for Buchanan, but since that time has been a Republican. He has been a member of the Masonic Lodge for sixteen years, and his wife a member of the Christian Church for twenty years. Mr. Hart owns 160 acres of land, 120 of which are in a good state of cultivation. In 1868, he gave up his farm life and kept a general merchandise store in Washington, for three years, and then moved to Montgomery where he followed the same occupation, and also operated a coal mine. In 1876, he returned to the farm, where he has since lived.
History of Knox and Daviess Indiana
Goodspeed Publishing; Chicago; 1886
Page 768-769

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