Biography of Henry Maxwell, pages 537 / 538.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Henry Maxwell, farmer and stock-raiser, Concord Township, was born in Wayne 
County, Ohio. July 31, 1835, the fifth of ten children of John and Polly 
(Thomas) Maxwell, natives of Ohio, of Irish and English descent.  John 
Maxwell was a millwright by trade, and about 1840 built the first bridge 
across the St. Joseph River.  In the winter of 1841-‘2 he moved to De Kalb 
County, and worked at his trade till 1849 in Newville Township, when he 
bought the farm now owned by his son Hugh, where he lived till his death.  
Henry Maxwell remained with his parents till fifteen years of age, and then 
went to Michigan where he lived twelve years.  He enlisted in the war of the 
Rebellion in Company K, Second Michigan Infantry, and the following June 
received a wound which disabled him for active duty, and from the effects of 
which he has never recovered.  Since his return from the war he has followed 
agricultural pursuits, and now owns a fine farm of eighty acres all under 
cultivation.  He was married in 1859 to Mary Ann Brown, and to them were born 
two children, Hugh and Rosa J.  The former died aged three years.  His wife 
died in 1861, and in 1863 he married Alvira Hull, who died Feb. 17, 1879.  
Oct. 8, 1879 he married Lura L. Jackson.  They have one child---Winiferd 
Alene.  Mr. Maxwell is a member of Newville Lodge, No. 326, F. & A. M., 
and John C. Carns, No. 144, G.A.R.  In politics he is a Democrat.

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