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Van SICKLE, Isaac N. PO Crawfordsville, Jeweler, son of William and Rachel M. Van Sickle. Was b. in Preble Co OH Oct 14, 1842. Settled in this co. Nov 21, 1864. Nov 16, 1865, marr. to Mary C. BROMLEY . Children: Mabel C and Jessie F. Mr. V. was bookkeeper in 1st National Bank from Jan 1, 1865 to Dec 31, 1867. Embarked in jewelry business in Spring of 1868.

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Source: 1881 H. W. Beckwith History of Montgomery co IN (Chicago: Hill) p 301

I. N. Van Sickle, jeweler, Crawfordsville, was born in Preble County Ohio, October 14, 1842. His father, William Van Sickle, was born in 1798 in New Jersey, and died in 1860. His mother, Rachel M. (Southard) Van Sickle, was born in 1801 in the same state, and died in 1880. In 1849 I. N. Van Sickle removed with his parents to Clinton County, Indiana. He was raised a farmer, which occupation he continued till the spring of 1862. In that year he attended Bacon's Commercial College at Cincinnati, and graduated, thus fitting himself for a business more commercial than farming. In the fall of 1862 he accepted a situation as bookkeeper with the wholesale grocery house of Bausemer Bro. & Co., at La Fayette, which he held two years, when he resigned for the purpose of a trip south, but he was offered and accepted the position of first clerk in the provost marshal's office, under Capt. James Park, and filled throughout the entire draft for soldiers for the war of the rebellion. On retiring from that office he was engaged as bookkeeper for J. W. Blair & Co., pork packers at Crawfordsville, and began his work November 21, l864. Before the close of the packing season he was offered the position as bookkeeper in the First National Bank, and had also an offer from the Toledo, Wabash & Western railroad. He accepted the situation with the bank, January 1, 1865. On November 16, 1865, Mr. Van Sickle was united in marriage to Miss Mary C. Bromley. Two children have been born to them: Mabel C., born August 28, 1866, and Jessie F., born February 1868. Mr. Van Sickle remained in the bank for three years, and in March, 1868, formed a partnership with H. T. Shepherd, in the jewelry business, under the firm name of Shepherd & Van Sickle. At the end of seventeen months the partnership, at the insistence Van Sickle, was dissolved, each partner taking one half the stock, Shepherd retaining the room and Van Sickle, for the time being, taking a small part of the counter room in the dry-goods store of J. C. Fullenwider & Co. About December 1, 1870, he moved into the room one door east of Green street, on Main, where he remained till July 1, 1880. His business had so increased as to justify him in expending considerable money in erecting and fitting out a neat brick store-room. This he occupied at the date last specified, four doors east of Elstons bank almost opposite the postoffice. Two large, costly upright display cases, filled with all kinds of silver ware of highest order besides his counter showcases full of diamonds, watches and jewelry, and clocks on the shelves, give his room richness and elegance. His trade is more extensive than that of any other house in the city, and he receives orders from the extreme northern portion of the state, Michigan, Illinois and Iowa. He is popularly known (especially by the railroad men, with whom he does an extensive trade) as Van Sickle, the Crawfordsville jeweler. Mr. Van Sickle possesses the elements of a business man and upon such a man customers depend.

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Source: Waveland Independent Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana Friday, Feb 10, 1899

I.N. VanSickle, of Crawfordsville died on Wednesday after a long illness. "Newt" Vansickle was one of the best known citizens of Crawfordsville, a genial, well-respected man. For many years he was engaged in the jewelry business, and at the time of his death was a partner in Indiana Printing Company.