Dillard C. Whitham

    Dillard C. Whitham, farmer, Shelby Township, was born in Ripley County, in 1828. He is the son of Benjamin Whitham, and was raised a farmer. Was educated in the schools of his day.

    In 1854, he was married to Elizabeth Buchanan, whose father was an early settler of this county (Jefferson). They have the following named children: Festus M., Nancy J., Adrain, Orbia and Carrie.

    Mr. Whitham has 400 acres of good land in Jefferson County, where he lives comfortably. The grandfather of the subject of this sketch came to Indiana in 1812, and settled near Buchanan's Station, in Jefferson County, while the Indians were still here, and raised a family of seven sons and five daughters.

    Mr. Whitham is an enterprising and successful farmer.

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.