CHARLES N. WESTFALL was born in Germany March 21,1837, and is the youngest of the four children born to John and Christina (Kroger) Westfall. John was a farmer, a soldier in the German Army during the coalition against Bonaparte, and a member of the Lutheran Church. He died in Germany in 1873. Charles N. Westfall came to this country in about 1853, and for a year or so worked in New York State; in 1855, he came to Michigan City, this State, where he worked a year, thence to Chicago, thence to Racine, being employed at both places in the lumber yards; in 1858, he returned to Michigan City, and for two years was engaged in fishing. He then came to this township, where he farmed by the month two years; then farmed in Jasper County on shares one year and in the fall of 1881, enlisted in Company K, Forty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served until June, 1862, when he was discharged for disability. For six months he again farmed in Jasper County, and then for three years in Tippecanoe County, then for two years in Benton County. In the spring of 1866, he bought eighty acres in this township, which he has since increased to 240 acres, and in the spring of 1883 started a grocery store at Dern. In 1863, he married Alice S. Hickok, a native of Ohio, who bore him six children, and died in 1873, a member of the M. E. Church. In 1874, Mr. Westfall married Adelia Wingard, a native of this county. In politics, Mr. W. is a Democrat, and both he and wife are members of the M. E. Church.

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