Thomas J. Francisco

    Thomas J. Francisco is a native of Jefferson County; was born in Madison Township, January 4, 1839, and was brought up in the city and attended the city schools.

    His parents were Alonzo and Ursula (Ellison) Francisco. His father war born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised there. His mother was born in new Jersey, but was raised in Ohio. They came to Indiana and located at Madison in 1837, where they have lived ever since. His father died September 20,1 885, aged seventy. His mother is still living, in her sixty-ninth year. His father was a butcher.

    Mr. Francisco, after leaving school, went to work for Mr. James Middleton, in order to learn the trade of butchering, and continued with him until 1864.

    In the same year he started in business for himself, having to borrow the money to start on, and has continued in this business, and from a financial standpoint has been a success ever since.

    Mr. Francisco owns a handsome residence just outside of the city limits, and a farm of one hundred acres, on the Graham Road, four miles from town. He is engaged pretty largely in feeding stock on this farm, carrying an average of one hundred cattle during the winter. He is one of the thorough business men of Jefferson County, and deserves his success as the result of his labors.

    Mr. Francisco was married, February 20, 1861, to Miss Mary A. Grensling, a native of Madison. They have three children: Annie L., Gilbert E. and Maud L.

    Mr. Francisco joined the I. O. O. F. at the age of twenty-one years. Is also a member of the Masonic order.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.