BIO:  MASTERS, Albert L., s/o Richard & Elizabeth (Fowler) Masters

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Pike County, Clay Twp, page 467

ALBERT L. MASTERS was born in Pike County, Ind., December 20, 1821.  His
parents were Richard and Elizabeth (Fowler) Masters, who were born and raised
in Kentucky.  They came to Pike County, Ind., about 1819 and settled on a
farm, previously entered, and began clearing it.  The father died when our
subject was two years old.  December 12, 1826 his widow married John Butler.
When he was about thirteen years old his step-father died and he then remained
with his mother until he was twenty-three years old and then began farming for
himself on land where his father had lived.  About 1849 he purchased the farm
where he now lives.  He has been quite successful in his enterprises and owns
191 acres of land, 223 acres which he owned in Logan Township he gave to his
children.  December 18, 1846 he married Catharine Grubb and they became the
parents of eleven children, nine now living. The wife died June 1, 1882, and
Mr. Masters is living on the old home farm with his children.  He is a member
of the I.O.O.F., and has been a member of the Methodist and Cumberland
Presbyterian Churches.  He was born and raised a Democrat but after the war he
became a Republican.  He enlisted in Company G, Sixty-fifth Indiana
Volunteers, July 15, 1862, but was discharged in February, 1864, on account of
disability.  He was in several battles and skirmishes.  He is now sixty four
years old and is yet hale and hearty.


 
From: "Phyllis Hill" 
<phill@redrock.net>
Date: 10 Aug 1998