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From the book "HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI INDIANA. Historical and Biographical. Illustrated. Chicago; F. A. Battey & CO., Publishers. 1883."
page 246, City of Monticello, White County, Indiana.
"ZACHARIAH VAN BUSKIRK, deceased, one of the first of White County's pioneers, was a native of Hamshire County, Virginia, and was born August 18, 1808. His advent in White County was in the year 1833, when but few settlers were living within its borders, and those were far outnumbered by the Indians. MR. VAN BUSKIRK located at Monticello, and his worldly possessions at that time consisted of the clothes on his back and 50 cents in money; but aside from these he possessed a strong heart and willing hands, and thus equipped began working at his trade of carpenter and joiner. This was his occupation for twenty-two years, and many of his neighbors had reason to remember him as the builder of the cabins in which they resided. He was married to MISS SARAH McMINN December 25, 1848, and soon after this event built the house now known as the SWITZER property, on Main Street, in which he passed the remainder of his life. At one time, during his early residence here, he served the public as County Assessor, performing the duties of this office in person and making the entire canvass of the county on foot. He afterward served as Democratic Township Trustee for a number of years. Owing to asthmatic trouble, he was compelled to abandon his trade in course of time, and for several years pursued the calling of house-painter, but at the time of his death was engaged in the grocery trade. He died June 24, 1866, preceded by his wife two years. They were the parents of three children - JAY B., WILLIAM H. and LEACY C., the last two named being twins, and the last deceased. JAY B. VAN BUSKIRK was born November 5, 1850, graduated from the classical course of Asbury University in 1872, and in November, 1874 became a partner of W. J. HUFF in the proprietorship and publication of the Monticello HERALD, one of the best county newspapers in Northern Indiana. November 25, 1875, he married MISS EMMA COEN, and they are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Monticello."
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