Deere - Edmund
Taken from: Page 305 History of Parke Co Indiana ; J. H. Beadle, Chicago: H. H. Hill, 1880
DEER, Edmund , miller and farmer, Annapolis, is one of the active business men of Parke County, and he was born in Boone County, Kentucky in 1825. He is the son of Joel and Sarah (GARNETT) Deer, who were natives of Culpeper County, Virginia, and removed from Boone County, Kentucky to Montgomery County, Indiana in 1828. Here Mr. Deer grew to man's estate in the meantime working in his father's grist mill and attending the common schools. He has spent the larger part of his life in the mill business, that being his father's business. His father built the second mill built on Sugar Creek, in Montgomery County, Indiana. Mr. Deer has obtained two patents for a millstone dress. Mr. Deer came to Parke Co. in 1862, and bought an interest in the Rockport mills, which has been under his management ever since. He spent a short time in Missouri, where he built a large schoolhouse and established a school, but on account of the rebellion he abandoned it. While there he married Mary J. SCOTT, a native of Ohio , who was raised in Missouri. Since the first of 1880 he has established a miller's exchange business at Bloomingdale. He is a prominent Mason, and is classed with the prominent business men of Parke County.
Search instead for DEER, Edmund , miller and farmer, Annapolis, is one of the active business men of Parke County, and he was born in Boone County, Kentucky in 1825. He is the son of Joel and Sarah (GARNETT) Deer, who were natives of Culpepper County, Virginia, and removed from Boone County, Kentucky to Montgomery County, Indiana in 1828. Here Mr. Deer grew to man's estate in the meantime working in his father's grist mill and attending the common schools. He has spent the larger part of his life in the mill business, that being his father's business. His father built the second mill built on Sugar Creek, in Montgomery County, Indiana. Mr. Deer has obtained two patents for a millstone dress. Mr. Deer came to Parke Co. in 1862, and bought an interest in the Rockport mills, which has been under his management ever since. He spent a short time in Missouri, where he built a large schoolhouse and established a school, but on account of the rebellion he abandoned it. While there he married Mary J. SCOTT, a native of Ohio , who was raised in Missouri. Since the first of 1880 he has established a miller's exchange business at Bloomingdale. He is a prominent Mason, and is classed with the prominent business men of Parke County. - kbz