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HARRISON G. VAN DERVORT, farmer and minister of the Gospel, Sec. 15; P. O. Ellsworth; owns forty acres; was born in Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Sept. 25, 1846; his mother dying when he was 5 years of age, he remained with his father and sister on a farm; his father died in October, 1861, previous to which his father had moved from Indiana to this county, in the year 1849; the son had a common-school education and the benefit of five years of home study, preparatory to the ministry. Was then married to Isabel McVay, May 21, 1873, who was born in Greene Co., Penn., June 14, 1850; they are the parents of two children — Ola Bell, born Feb, 11, 1875; Lula Myrtle, born Aug. 30, 1876. Entered upon the ministry in 1867; was ordained the same year, and is a minister of the Christian Church; has charge of the Church at Saybrook; also that at Oak Grove, and has preached considerably in the southern part of this State, and also in Kansas; he traveled three years for the Missionary Society of this county; has held the office of President of the Missionary Society, also President of Sunday School Society, and is a speaker of no small degree of eloquence; has been very successful in gaining members to his Church. He enlisted in the late war in 1865, Co. B, 150th I. V. I.; served three months; went as musician; was mustered out by general order. His father was a native of Virginia; his mother, of Ohio. His wife’s parents were natives of Pennsylvania.