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Below is a family biography included in The History of Warrick County, Indiana published by Goodspeed, Bros. & Co. in 1885.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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DANIEL A. DEFOREST, M. D., of DeForest Station, is a native of Boon Township, Warrick County, Ind., his birth occurring November 6, 1833. Joseph DeForest, his father, was a native of the Nutmeg State, born in 1790; immigrated to Indiana Territory in 1815, locating at old Darlington, in Warrick County, where he resided one year. In 1816 he bought a tract of land three miles west of Boonville’s present site, and in 1818 he married Mary N. Denton, by whom he was the father of seven children. He and wife experienced many of the hardships and privations incident to pioneer life, and in 1867 and 1873, respectively, they were called to their final home above. Both were consistent Members of long standing in the Methodist Episcopal Church. Daniel A. is the youngest of his parents’ family. His early education was obtained in the old-fashioned log schoolhouse, afterward attending Asbury University at Greencastle. He read medicine under the direction of Dr. B. T. Runcie, of Millersburg, completing his first course of lectures at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, and his second course in the Medical Department of Yale College, New Haven, Conn,, which granted him the degree of “M. D,” in 1858. He located for the practice of his profession at Ashbysburgh, Ky., and in November, 1858, wedded Miss Margaret B. Markham; but in 1861, owing to the unsettled state of affairs caused by the Rebellion, he removed his family to Evansville, Ind., for a short time. He assisted in recruiting the Twenty-fifth Kentucky Volunteer Regiment, declining the Captain’s commission, having already accepted the position of Assistant Surgeon of the regiment. He remained in the service until called home by illness in his family, and shortly thereafter began practicing medicine at Newburgh. On the death of his father he removed to his old home, where he has since resided. He is a Republican, an Encampment member of the I. O.O. F., and a member of the A. O. U. W. His farm is underlaid with an excellent quality of bituminous coal, and having leased 200 acres for a period of ninety-nine years that portion is being worked extensively, yielding 30,000 bushels per month. Dr. DeForest and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the parents of ten children, these seven yet living: William H., Alberta, Gertrude, Daniel F., Sylvester, Grace and Hattie L.

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This family biography is one of 274 biographies included in The History of Warrick County, Indiana portion of the book: History of Warrick, Spencer and Perry Counties Indiana published in 1885 by Goodspeed, Bros. & Co.  For the complete description, click here: Warrick County, Indiana History and Genealogy

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