Nathan R. Stedman

    Nathan R. Stedman, of Aurora, was born in New York in 1814. In early life he went to Connecticut, where he learned his trade, a molder in foundry. In 1837 he removed to Cincinnati, and soon thereafter to Rising Sun, Indiana, where with Co. Pinkney James as a partner, he started the first foundry in this part of the country. Upon the death of Mr. James, W. H. Lamdins was taken into partnership, but in the spring of 1849 his interest was purchased by Thomas and J. W. Gaff, and the foundry was removed to Aurora.

    Mr. Stedman's was a long, busy and eventful life. He was generous to the needy and undemonstrative in the bestowal of charity. "Hew has left behind him the unclouded and undimmed record of a noble life for others to follow, bull of patient industry, honorable execution in business pursuits, noble deeds in benevolence and charity, and all that goes to make up the full measure of a noble manhood." His death occurred in 1884.

Source: History of Dearborn and Ohio Counties, Indiana by F.E. Weakley & Co., 1885.