Lysander Shipman

    Lysander Shipman, farmer and stock-raiser, was a native of Chenango County, New York, and a son of David and Levina Shipman, also natives of New York, whose business was farming. After an ordinary education, and after reaching manhood, he was wedded in the State of New York, to Miss Elizabeth Smith, who died about twenty years after her marriage.

    Mr. Shipman was next wedded, in 1872, to Miss Lydia Smith, a sister of his former wife, both daughter of Curtis and Lydia A. (Loomis) Smith, and natives of New York. Mr. Shipman was father of four children -Curtis D., Ida E., Hattie S. and Guy L. Mr. Shipman farmed for number of years on land he had leased, and afterward purchased 160 acres of their home farm in 185-69. He died July 19, 1875.

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