John Blind

    John Blind, farmer and stock-raiser, is one of the pioneers of this county (Warren); was born in Ross County, Ohio, March 9, 1824, and is the second child of the family of John and Catherine (Wagner) Blind, both natives of Germany. The father of our subject emigrated to the United States and settled in Ross County, Ohio, when a young man, and worked at farming on shares, and married. In 1833, he moved to Medina Township, Indiana, where he entered 160 acres, which he improved and on which he resided until his death, January 20, 1862, aged sixty-eight. Mrs. Blind died July 7, 1862. Mr. Blind owned at his death 400 acres of land.

    The subject of this sketch farmed with his father, the latter years on shares, until he reached the age of twenty-eight. In 1853, he bought 100 acres in this township (Adams), and later 110 more, on which he has since resided, comprising 270 acres, all well improved. He was married February, 1847, to Harriet Godfrey, a native of Tippecanoe County; to this marriage followed two children, but one of whom survives -Marcellus. Mrs. Blind died July, 1849. Mr. Blind next married, December 16, 1851, Frances M. Gwinn of Greene County, Ohio, by whom he had four children -Benjamin F., George N., Charles O. and Anna M. Mr. Blind is a Republican, and he and wife belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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