Joseph Dehner

    Joseph Dehner, farmer, stock-dealer and Assessor, to which office he was elected in 1878, was born in Carroll County, Indiana, in 1853, and remained with his parents for whom he worked on the farm until his majority, when he engaged in merchandising for one year at Earl Park, then for one year at Raub Station, and afterward to farming on account of ill health.

     Mr. Dehner was married in this county (Benton) to Miss Margaret Horney, a native of Dubois, Indiana. this marriage was blessed with five children -Carroll, Mary, Emma, Helen and Genevieve.

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