Newton Co., IN Biography

    WILLIAM W. CHIZUM was born June 22, 1850, in Tippecanoe County, 
Indiana, and is one of six children of Joseph and Mary (Hanger) Chizum.  
His parents came to Newton County when he was an infant, where he 
remained through his childhood, attending the common schools.  In 
1870, he went to California and Oregon, where he spent eighteen months 
working on a farm and teaming.  He then returned to Newton County and 
bought the farm of eighty acres where he now resides.  It is in a good 
state of cultivation.  April 17, 1872, Mr. Chizum married Nancy J. 
Deardurff, a native of Newton County, and daughter of George W. and 
Catherine (Ash) Deardurff.  They have had five children, four of whom 
are living--Mary E., Flora, Omer and Ned; an infant, born in March, 
1882 died in July of the same year.  Politically, Mr. Chizum is a 
Republican, and one of the enterprising young men of the township.  

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

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