William Brier

    William Brier is a native of Champaign County, Ohio, born April 25, 1820, and is one of the thirteen children of Isaac and Mary (West) Brier; the former born in Pennsylvania in 1788, the latter in South Carolina in 1794. They were married in Champaign County, Ohio, in 1809, and in 1830 moved to Warren County, Indiana and settled where our subject now lives; here, too, they died, he November 27, 1858, she March 15, 1868. He was a soldier of 1812, and the first Postmaster of the township. Their family were: Philander, Andrew, John, Mary, Hannah, Juliann, William, George, Isaac, James, David, Benjamin and Henry.

    William Brier learned the trade of a carpenter, at which he worked some years; he was also engaged in the millwright business. November 17, 1850, he married Amy J., daughter of Carpenter and Amy J. Morey, born in this county, August 21, 1835. This union gave issue to two children -Francis E. and Sylvia A.

    Mr. Brier, after marriage, settled on some previously purchased land, and in 1858 moved to the old homestead, now his home. He has 283 acres of good land, well improved.

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