P. A. Black

    P. A. Black is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth Black, the former a native of Virginia, the latter of New York, who were pioneers of Miami County, Indiana, whence, in March, 1836, they had a son stolen by the Indians. Our subject remained  with his parents until he was twenty-one years old.

    In 1861, he was married to Josephine Voorhis, a native of Ohio. After his marriage, he farmed on rented land for four years, and then purchased eighty acres of his present home, and has since added forty acres, making a good far, on which he raises 3,000 bushels of corn per year usually. Mr. and Mrs. Black have seven living children -Dora, Schuyler C., T. V., Frederick, Carrie, Gertrude and Walter. Dora is a graduate of the Institution for the Deaf.

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