Biography of Levi Showalter, pages 545 / 546.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Levi Showalter was born in Wayne County, Ohio, Jan. 4, 1838, a son of Joseph 
and Barbara (Hoff) Showalter.  The former died in January, 1884, aged eighty 
years, and the latter still lives on the old homestead, age eighty years.  
In 1859 Levi Showalter came to Indiana and located in Steuben County.  He 
had learned the blacksmith’s trade in his native county and worked at it in 
Steuben County one winter.  He then returned to Ohio, walking from Angola to 
Ft. Wayne and carrying his baggage.  He remained in Wayne County till the 
fall of 1861 and then came to De Kalb County, and the following spring, March 
27, was married to Clarinda, daughter of Joseph Shilling, an old settler of 
Concord Township. After his marriage he went to Huntington County, Ind., and 
lived a year on an unimproved farm of his father’s.  He then returned to De 
Kalb county and bought eighty acres of partially improved land in Wilmington 
Township, and two years later moved to Steuben County, and engaged in farming 
two years.  Then moved to Angola and worked at his trade two years, and then 
again engaged in farming eight years.  In the spring of 1876 he sold his 
property and went to Ohio and carried on the old homestead for his father 
a year.  In 1877 he bought the old Shilling homestead which was entered by 
Mrs. Showalter’s grandfather, Adam Shilling.  This farm contains 160 acres 
of choice land and the improvements are among the best in the township.  To 
Mr. and Mrs. Showalter have been born eleven children, seven of whom are 
living---Joseph E., Anna Mary, Cora E., Flora J., Hortense May, Myrtle J., 
and William A.  The deceased are, Leander C., Barbara A., Catherine J. and 
Alice C.  In politics Mr. Showalter is a Republican.  He and his wife are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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