BIO: Main, Joseph - Unknown Co

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Dubois County, Jefferson Twp, page 727

JOSEPH MAIN, who is a son of Johnson C. and Sarah (Wilson) Main, was born June
28, 1829, in Dubois County, Ind., and is the eldest of ten children. The
parents were natives of Pennsylvania and Kentucky, and came to Indiana when
quite young.  They married and lived near Huntingburgh, where the father, who
was a United Brethren minister, died in 1842.  The mother's death occurred
December 22, 1884, aged seventy-six years.  Our subject passed his boyhood on
a farm and received but little schooling.  He has been married three times.
His first wife, Abigail Hamilton, bearing one son, George Samuel (deceased),
died in 1852; his second, Sarah Shoulders, bore four children, three now
living; Mary E., Rachael J. and Sarah C.  This wife died in 1859.  He then
married Mrs. Elizabeth (Black) Sullivan, the result of this union being nine
children, eight now living; Martha Anne (deceased), Precious, William T.,
Jeremiah, Simon P., Joseph M., John H.L., Nancy L. and Samuel W.  This wife
died in 1880.  Joseph, our subject, started in life a poor boy, but by
industry he now owns 120 acres of good land.  He is a Mason and a Democrat.
His grandfather came to this State in very early times and he and family were
obliged to protect themselves from the Indians by means of a fort.
 
From: "Phyllis Hill" 
<phill@redrock.net>
Date: 17 Aug 1998