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The following Biographical sketch was copied from the book "HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI, INDIANA. Historical and Biographical. Illustrated. Chicago; F.A. Battey & Co., Publishers. 1883.
page 688, Salem Township, Pulaski County, Indiana.
"JOSEPH B. REES was born in Hamshire County (now West Virginia) September 9, 1835. His parents, JOHN and ELIZABETH (REINHART) REES were born in Hampshire County in 1812 and 1808 respectively, and were married in March 1834. The family came to White County soon after the birth of our subject, and in 1839 settled on the banks of the Monon, where the father died December 1, 1868. The mother died July 31, 1874, at the home of her son GEORGE. The family was the second to settle in what is now Salem Township. JOSEPH B. REES worked on his father's farm until about twenty-two years of age, and March 10, 1859, married MARY F. BYERS, daughter of JACOB BYERS, of this township MRS. REES died July 22, 1862, the mother of one child - ANNIE B. March 29, 1867, MR. REES married ARVILDA V., daughter of CHARLES FITZPATRICK, and to this union have been born three boys and one girl - an infant (deceased), LURA M., CHARLES F., and HARRY. In 1868, MR. REES and his father-in-law opened a butcher shop in Francesville, and about a year later MR. REES bought out his partner's interest, and to his former business has added the selling of agricultural implements and farm machinery, such as the Champion Reaper and Mower, the J.H. Thomas & Son Hay Rake, the Superior Wheat Drill, sulky plows, harrows, etc. MR. REES has been elected Township Assessor some nine times; he is a Democrat, and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church."
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