Joseph Anstett

    Joseph Anstett is a native of France, whence he came to America at the age of fifteen years. His parents, Bruno and Margaret M. Anstett, were also natives of France; his father was a farmer, and made barrels and staves for the Government. Joseph learned the trade of weaving, but did not follow the same. For ten years he conducted a saw-mill in Louisville, Kentucky, also one on White River, Indiana, and in the spring of 1868 located on his present farm of 120 acres, to which, by industry and tact, he has added until he has 240 acres of as fine land as can be seen in the township, with good buildings and other improvements.

     While in Louisville, he was married to Miss Mary E. Fisher, a native of France, which union has been crowned with six children -Catherine, Christopher, Emma, Melvina, Ophelia and Frank N.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.