BLUE-E.C. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

E. C. Blue, farmer, Covington, is the son of Wm. Blue, who was one of Fountain county's old and prominent pioneers. He was born in 1804, and was a native of Virginia, and was raised in Ohio until the age of eighteen years. He then, in 1822, came farther west and settled in what afterward became Fountain county. He settled in Troy township, and was probably more instrumental in the development and improvement of the farm lands than any of the pioneers of Troy township. He made the improvements on four or five different farms, and at the time of his death, which occurred in 1873, he was the owner of 900 acres of land. During the latter part of his life he was an active republican. He was married four different times, and raised quite a large family of girls, but only one son, whose name heads this sketch. He is engaged in farming, and owns a farm in the northern part of Troy township. He has been twice married, and has a family of five children; and has during his short married life met with much misfortune, and has paid no less than $3,000 of physicians' charges. He is an honorable and fair-minded man, and one whose word is as good as his bond.