Anthony Dehner

    Anthony Dehner, farmer and County Commissioner, is a native of Germany and son of John and Mary A. (Konnane) Dehner, both natives of Germany, who emigrated to America in 1834, and located at Dayton for two years, and thence moved to Carroll County, Indiana, where they cleared land known as the "Dehner settlement", where the elder Mr. Dehner died. Anthony was engaged in the stilling and saw-milling business for twelve years in Carroll County, where he was married, in 1847, to Miss Jane Wolf, daughter of Anthony Wolf, of German descent. Mr. Dehner then began keeping hotel and managed it for four years; this property he afterward exchanged for 2,640 acres in this county (Benton), to which he removed in 1860, and improved in various ways, the farm being now an excellent one.

    Mr. and Mrs. Dehner have four living children -Joseph, Anthony, Emma and John, all of whom have received careful educations. Mr. Dehner was elected Trustee of York Township (afterward divided into York and Richland Townships), and afterward served Richland several terms. In 1879, he was elected County Commissioner for four years and re-elected in 1882.

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