Biography of Lucius C. Loveland, pages 790 / 791.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Lucius C. Loveland, section 31, Stafford Township, postoffice, Newville, is 
a native of Defiance County, Ohio, born June 3, 1844, the eldest son of 
Luther and Mary M. (Clemmer) Loveland, the former a native of Connecticut, 
born in 1816, and the latter of Virginia, born in 1815.  He is a descendant 
of Thomas Loveland who settled Glastonbury, Conn., in 1670.  His great-
grandfather, Pelatiah Loveland, was a blacksmith, and made the nails with 
which to shingle the first frame barn in that town.  Two of his brother were 
soldiers in the Revolutionary war.  He was married Dec.7, 1774, to Mollie 
Goodale, and the second time, Oct. 27, 1816, to Eunice Butler. He died in 
1823.  He reared a family of thirteen children; the youngest son, the 
grandfather of our subject, Luther Loveland, was born March 18, 1793, and 
was married May 15, 1814, to Lucy Wickam, and in 1824 moved to Lorain 
County, Ohio.  His family consisted of nine children, six sons and three 
daughters.  Luther Loveland, our subject’s father, came to the Maumee 
River in 1834, and to Hicksville, Defiance County, Ohio, in 1837, where he 
bought 160 acres of land on section 7.  He sowed the first crop of wheat 
in the township, on unplowed ground, where the town of Hicksville now is, 
for A. P. Edgerton, and made a harrow with wooden teeth to harrow it.  He 
was married in 1840, and had a family of seven children, three sons and 
four daughters. Lucius C. Loveland learned the tinner’s trade when twenty-
two years of age, and carried on that business eleven years.  In the fall 
of 1866 he came to De Kalb County and worked at this trade in Newville two 
years, and in 1868 removed to Hicksville.  He was hurt by a falling tree 
when about eighteen years of age, and was obliged to have the lower part of 
his right leg amputated.  In 1871 he was elected Treasurer of Hicksville 
Township, and served five years.  And in 1873 was elected Justice of the 
Peace, and served six years.  During this time he was Clerk of Hicksville 
corporation and served one year on the Village Council.  In 1876 he, with 
his father and John Crowl, built the Anchor Mills at Hicksville.  In 1879 
he exchanged his interest in the mill for the farm where he now lives 
which was entered in 1836 by A. Walden.  He was elected Justice of the 
Peace of Stafford Township  in 1880, and served three and a half years, 
when he resigned.  He is prominent member of the Odd Fellows’ order.  He 
was married Dec. 22, 1864, to Margaret J. Shroll, of De Kalb County, Ind.  
To them have been born nine children; eight are living---Frank S., Luther 
J., Cora and Ora (twins), Maud M., Ray P., Maggie, Mary F. and George.  
Maggie fell in a ditch and was drowned April 26, 1880, aged two years.

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