William M. House

    William M. House, a prominent old settler of Ohio Township, was born January 11, 1818, in Vermont, and is the eldest of eight children born to Seali and Viana (Curlew) House, who were also natives of the green Mountain State. They removed to Ohio at an early day, and from there to Warrick County, Indiana, arriving at the latter place October 15, 1839, and first settled on a farm in Boon Township, but a year later removing to near the present place of our subject.

    William M. was reared to manhood in Ohio, and received only a limited education. October 15, 1840, he married Julia Ann Hedge, and these six of the seven children, born to them are living: George (who married Elizabeth Pine); Jane (now Mrs. Joseph Pecke); Kaoka (wife of Amos Merritt); Victoria (unmarried); Tarmer (who wedded Georgia A. Phillips), and Catharine (Mrs. John Trumper).

    Mr. House has always made farming his occupation, and although he is not rich in this world's goods he has a comfortable home and a good farm of eighty acres. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the Baptist Church, and is identified with all the laudable local public enterprises of the community in which he resides.

Source: History of Warrick, Spencer, and Perry Counties, Indiana, By: Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 1885.