Biography of Amos Draper, pages 523 / 524.  History De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Amos Draper is a native of Otsego County, N. Y., born April 5, 1804, a son 
of Bethuel and Polly (Vaughn) Draper, his father a native of Massachusetts, 
son of Joshua Draper, of English descent,  and his mother a native of New 
York, of Holland descent.  When he was ten years of age his father died, 
leaving his mother, with six small children, in limited circumstances.  The 
children were scattered, and our subject found a home in the family of 
Stockwell in the city of Troy, where he lived three years, when his mother, 
having married again, he lived with her a short time.  When he was twenty-two 
years of age he began teaching, his first school being near Hardwick.  He 
then taught several years in his native county,  In 1840 he moved to Huron 
County, Ohio, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits till 1873, when he 
moved to De Kalb County, Ind., and  bought eighty acres of land in Concord 
Township, all under cultivation.  He is a self-made man, having made his 
property solely by his own industry and frugal habits, accompanied by his 
integrity and good business ability.  He was married Jan. 22, 1837, to 
Sally Ann Doan, a native of the State of New York.  To them were born five 
children, but three of whom are living---Horace, William, and Miranda.  
Emily and Harriet are deceased.  Mrs. Draper, born May 10, 1818, died Nov. 
12, 1879, aged sixty-one years, six months, and two days.  In politics he 
is a Republican.

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