Newton County In Biography


   FAYETTE R. LAMPHERE was born in Will County, Illinois, July 24, 
1852, and is the elder of two children of Joshua and Mary (Pepper) 
Lamphere, of New York, Joshua Lamphere came with his family, in 1850, 
to Will County, Illinois, where he owned a farm until his death in 
1854.  His wife has been twice married since, and is now a widow, 
living in Iroquois Township, Newton County, Indiana.  Fayette, who 
was only two years old when his father died, continued to live with 
his mother, attending school some until nine years of age, when he 
went to work by the month on a farm, until 1875.  He then rented and 
worked a farm, for two years, when, July 27, 1877, he married Mrs. 
Ardilla Shriver, a native of Edgar County, Illinois and daughter of 
Isaac and Anna (Smith) Van Hauten.  Mrs. Lamphere has four children-
-Mrs. Sarah Collins, Mrs. Alice Archibald, Mrs. Emma Enfield and Miss 
Anna Shriver.  They have a farm of seventy-one acres, and also work 
fifty acres belonging to the other heirs of E. T. Shriver.  In 
politics, Mr. Lamphere is a Republican.


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