BIO:  LEMMON, Jacob H., s/o John & Elizabeth (Cimmerl) Lemmon

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Dubois County, Patoka Twp, page 636

JACOB H. LEMMON, representative of one of the pioneer families of the county,
was born February 8, 1840, son of John and Elizabeth (Cimmerl) Lemmon.  The
father, a native of Kentucky, came to Dubois County, Ind., with his father in
1802, and located on a tract of land near where Portersville now stands. John
was raised amid the wilderness, undergoing all the hardships of pioneer life.
After marriage he followed farming, sending his products by boats down the
White, Wabash, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans.  His death, which
occurred in 1872, was a severe loss to his many friends.  He was a Republican
and a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  Our subject received a
very limited education and passed his boyhood on the farm. July 6, 1861, he
enlisted in Company E, Twenty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infantry.  He remained
in the field until January, 1865, then returned home and in November 1866, he
married Martha Jane McMahan, who has borne him two children:  McMahan and
Louise.  He is a stanch Republican in politics, and a member of the G.A.R.  He
and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  After marriage,
Mr. Lemmon lived on the old homestead until 1872, and then purchased the
McMahan farm near Duff Station, where he resided until 1883, when he removed
to Huntingburg where he has since resided.  He still controls his farms and is
engaged in stock raising.

 
From: "Phyllis Hill" 
<phill@redrock.net>
Date: 14 Aug 1998