Shotts - Arthur R.
Source: 1913 History of Montgomery County, Indiana. Indianapolis: AW Bowen, 1913
p 1071
Only too frequently is it the case that people do not see
beyond the narrow limits of their own surroundings, and items of
public and private interest are allowed to drift into the channel
of the forgotten past. Many important facts connected with the
lives of the early settlers of Montgomery County are irrevocably
lost, but a few have been found by careful research and will be
appropriately mentioned in this and other sketches in this
volume. One of the actors in this early history and development
of this section of the Hoosier state was the honored father of
the gentleman whose name introduces this paragrah and from the
early day in which he took up his residence here to the present
time the name SHOTTS has been well known and highly respected.
Arthur R. Shotts was born in Madison Township, Montgomery County
Sept 22, 1867. He is a son of Andrew and Nancy D (SEVERS)
Shotts. The father was a native of Va the mother was born in
Ohio. The father's birth occurred March 23, 1816 and died March
9, 1878. In early life he came to Montgomery County about 1828
locating on a farm on which he spent the rest of his life;
however, he at first lived near Harrisburg, living for a time on
the old William Henry Harrison farm. HIs family consisted of 11
children: John H. is deceased; Orin A; Samuel M deceased; Isaac
P; Ira A; Ernest W; Mary E; James N. and WIlliam A. are both
deceased; Andrew H. and Arthur R., subject of this sketch. Our
subject grew to manhood on the home farm and there worked hard
when a boy. He received his early education in the common
schools, after which he took up farming and is still actively
engaged in general and mixed farming and stock raising and has
been very successful, making a specialty of short horn cattle and
Duroc-Jersey hogs. Mr. Shotts married on Jan 25, 1891, Jane
GUSHMA, daughter of John and Carolien Gushma her parents being
early settlers of Tippecanoe County. Mr. Shotts has no children,
but he is rearing a little girl. Politically, he is a Democrat,
and fraternally, belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America at
Linden. Our subject's father had the first fenced farm in
Madison Twp. Grandfather, Henry Shotts who married Lemina
GARLAND was born in Virginia and there spent most of his earlier
life, finally moving to Indiana in the 20s and he died in
Montgomery Co. - kbz