BIO: Colvin, Josiah - Unknown Co

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Dubois County, Madison Twp, page 789

JOSIAH COLVIN, merchant of Ireland, Ind., was born May 17, 1839, and is a son
of William and Elizabeth (Hillman) Colvin, respectively of Ohio and Kentucky.
The father bought a farm of eighty acres in Pike County, Ind., and worked
there until his death, which occurred in 1845.  The mother is yet living on
the old place.  Our subject's education was meager, and was gained amid the
disadvantages of frontier life, in log school-houses.  His father died when he
was six years of age, and he remained at home until he was seventeen, when he
commenced as an apprentice learning the carpenter's trade, at which he worked
until 1861, when he enlisted in the Union Army, in Company I, Forty-second
Indiana Infantry.  He took an active part in the battle of Perryville, and was
discharged in 1863, owing to disability to perform active duty.  September 1,
1863, he wedded Jane Selby, to whom four children were born: John W., Lillie
May, Emma C. and Ella D.  For some years after marriage he worked on his
mother's farm and carried the mail from Petersburg to Washington for eighteen
months, and from Oakland to Princeton one year. In 1874 he commenced the
mercantile business in Oakland City, where he remained seven years; thence to
Petersburg, remaining four years; thence to Ireland, in 1885, where he is now
carrying on the mercantile business.  In politics he is a Republican, casting
his vote for Abraham Lincoln.  He is a Mason and member of the I.O.O.F.


From: "Phyllis Hill" 
<phill@redrock.net>
Date: 17 Aug 1998