Edmund S. Organ
Biographical Sketch
from "An Illustrated Historical Atlas of LaPorte
Co., IN" published in 1874.
EDMUND S. ORGAN was born in Campbell County, Virginia, July
2, 1813. His ancestors came to America previous to the
Revolution and settled in Maryland. They subsequently moved to Virginia
while Mr. Organ's father was a boy. His father was a farmer who married
Elizabeth Johnson, and had William, James, John, Samuel, Holcomb, Edmond
S., Henry A., Cornelius, and Mary.
Mr. Organ, the subject of this sketch, married Catherine N. Early,
daughter of Jacob, an old settler in Laporte County (1835), and has had
ten children: Mary (died), Ellen, Alice, Doshea, Fanny, Catherine (died),
Nettie, Lucy, Cora, and Walter. Mr. Organ moved to Laporte County in 1836,
and settled in Laporte as a clerk in Jacob Early's store. He remained
in that town ten or eleven years, and then settled on Section 28 in
Springfield Township.
In 1852 he was appointed and elected county treasurer, and served five
years. He engaged in the mercantile business, and in buying and selling
land for two or three years, and in the lumber business and farming.
His brothers Samuel and Henry A. came to Laporte in 1837, and engaged
in the cattle, produce, and grocery business and merchandising. They both
died in Laporte, leaving families, and are interned in Patton's Cemetery.
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