LANDON-Samuel D. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Samuel D. LANDON, merchant, Attica, the first child of Benjamin and Mary (DEARDORFF) LANDON, was born April 5, 1827, in Montgomery county, Ohio. In 1829 the family removed to Warren county, Indiana, and located in the Goodwine neighborhood in Liberty township. Mr. LANDON has been interested in farming all his life, but during the past thirty years also engaged in mercantile pursuits. He began poor, first by working for $8 per month, and next renting land. In a few years he got a small start and then went to trading. In 1850 he commenced in the grocery business in Williamsport, afterward adding dry goods to his stock. In 1854 he sold out, and in 1856 resumed the grocery and provision trade. In the fall of 1862 he removed to Attica, and has since continued in the same line of merchandising. He was married October 19, 1861, to Lucinda, daughter of Joseph HANES, an early settler of Warren county. They have reared four children: Isabel, born December 25, 1853, married R.A. GREEN, of Attica, and died April 20, 1874; Louis H., born April 19, 1856; Mary Alice, July 4,1859; Samuel W., June 14, 1865. Mrs. LANDON belongs to the Protestant Episcopal church. They own upward of 600 acres of land. Mr. LANDON had five brothers in the Union army during the rebellion, two of whom died in the service. He cast his first vote for Zachary Taylor for president; in 1852 he voted for Gen. Pierce, and until 1876 continued to act with the democratic party; but in that year he joined the greenbackers, and voted for Peter Cooper for president. In 1878 he received the nomination of the greenback party of Fountain and Warren counties for state senator, but failed of election. In 1880 he was renominated for the same position. Except on finance Mr. LANDON stands by the ancient and immutable principles of the democratic party. He is in favor of the government issuing currency direct to the people, and opposed to the conversion of the greenbacks into a bonded indebtedness. In common with all greenbackers he shared in the opposition to the refunding of the five-twenty bonds. His ancestors have exhibited a uniform longevity, living into the eighties and nineties.