JOHN SHELL was born in Marion County, Ind., April 10, 1844, and is one of the three children born to Arnold and Frances (Pence) Shell, viz.: Andrew, John and Joseph. The father was born in Tennessee in 1814, was a farmer and carpenter, and died in this township in January, 1867. John was but four or five years old when the family came here and located four miles northeast of his present place, to which he came in November, 1876. In November, 1864, he enlisted in the Forty-second Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out in July, 1865. November 23, 1871, he was married to Mary E. Ross, who has given birth to seven children, the living being named as follows : Luella, Anna, Estella, Lizzie and Ivan. Mr. Shell now resides six and one-half miles north of Monticello. He is a Prohibitionist in principle and strictly temperate in his habits, and is strongly in favor of compulsory education.

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