Newton Co., IN Biography

  LEVI S. EWAN was born in Genesee County, N.Y., June 6, 1815, and is 
one of nine children of Samuel and Mercy (Sprague) Ewan, the former of 
Scotch descent, a native of New Jersey, from which State he removed, 
when a young man, to New York, where he lived until 1819, when he went 
with his family to Cincinnati, Ohio, thence to Indiana, where he 
remained until his death July 18, 1848.  Levi received his education 
in the schools of Dearborn County.  He remained with his father's 
family until twenty-four years of age.  He learned the cooper's trade, 
which he followed several years.  In 1837, he entered a half section of 
land in Jennings County, Indiana, to which he removed eight years later, 
and where he lived twenty-two years.  In October, 1867, he removed to 
Beaver Township, and located on a farm of over 300 acres.  He retains 
121 acres, upon which is a fine house, where he lives.  The rest he has 
sold and given to a son.  In 1842, he began the study of law, with James 
Brown, of Lawrenceburg.  He was admitted to the bar in Jennings County, 
under Judge Cushing.  He has, however, practiced his profession but 
little.  He was married December 16, 1838, to Elmira E. King, a native 
of Dearborn County, Indiana.  Nine children have been born to them, 
five of whom, viz., Phineas B., Mrs. Catherine Day, Mrs. Cordelia B. 
Edmunds, Mrs. Florence Goddard and Charles C., are living; one, Isaac 
Newton fell at Vicksburg, in the service of his country.  Mr. Ewan 
and his wife are members of the M. E. Church, in which church he has 
been a local minister for over twenty years.  He is a staunch 
Republican, and, previous to the formation of that party, was a Whig.  

Beaver Township, Newton County.  From A History of Warren, Benton, 
Jasper and Newton Counties, 1883.  


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