Perry Washburn

    Perry Washburn is a native of Ohio. His father, Eleazer Washburn, was a native of Massachusetts, and claimed to be a descendant from the Mayflower party. He emigrated to Noblesville, Indiana in 1834, and afterward moved to Texas where he died. Perry remained with his parents on the home farm until he was twenty-one years old, and was thereafter employed by A. D. Graf of Ohio, who was construction railroads between Indianapolis and the Wabash River; also, later with Boody, Ross & Co., of New York, builders of the Wabash Valley Railroad.

    At the age of twenty-four, Mr. Washburn married Miss Mary E. Clayton, daughter of Ephraim Clayton, hotel keeper at Bunker Hill, Indiana, and then moved to Marshall County, where he purchased land and engaged in farming for four years; this sold and bought a farm on the Tippecanoe River, seven miles above Winamac. Thence he went to Kentland, and managed a stock ranch for A. J. Kent, twelve years. Finally he purchased a half section of land in this township (Richland), which farm yields him $2,500 a year.

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