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OTIS B. PASCO, a descendant of one of the pioneer families of this county, was born October 19, 1822, at Boonville, and is the only issue to the marriage of Dr. Alva Pasco, a native of Connecticut, and Lucy Hoskins, who was born in New York. About the year 1818 these parents came to Warrick County, Ind., and settled at Darlington, the then county seat. They afterward moved to Newburgh and from there to Boonville, where Mr. Pasco died, August 2, 1824. Mrs. Pasco lived to the age of sixty-three years, dying in 1865. Otis B. Pasco lived to the age of eighteen years with his mother and step-father, and during this time received the better part of his education at Delaney Academy at Newburgh. May 25, 1845, he wedded Tabitha Noel, who bore him five children, of whom only two, Algernon H. (married Catharine Perry) and Tabitha A. (Mrs. Benjamin F. Sprinkle), are now living. February 19, 1852, the mother died, and July 4, 1853, Mr. Pasco married Maria Brenner, and seven children were born to them, these now living: Eva, (Mrs. Lee Armstrong); Robert F., Cephas C. and Meredith. October 13, 1869, he was called upon to mourn the death of his second wife, who, like the first, was in every way a Christian wife and mother. Elizabeth Sprinkles became his third wife March 11, 1874, and by him the mother of five children: Irene G., Sylvester J., Laura A., Stella T. and Pearly C. Mr. Pasco is the owner of forty acres of good land; is a Democrat, has served as County Surveyor twenty years and also as Township Assessor. In.1856 he moved to Red Wing, Minn., where he resided six years and during that time was elected a County Commissioner.