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24 July 1821 – after 1907 · born in Columbia County, Pennsylvania
The tie, exactly: settler, 1834 — a boy of twelve in a party of his widowed mother, grandmother and aunts that left Pennsylvania on 8 April 1834 and reached South Bend on 9 May, on Howard's biographical sketch, read first-hand. The family entered four eighty-acre lots in Harris Township and settled on Section 14 in a cabin sixteen by sixteen feet, where they lived two years.
The course: from 1847 Christian farmed his own 160 acres on Section 24, land he cleared himself; along the way he broke prairie in South Bend on the ground where the Oliver shops later stood — a Harris farmer's hands in the city's industrial origin, printed at the sketch's strength. He married Elmira Foster on 28 December 1843; she died 15 July 1886; thirteen children were born to them. In 1880 he helped erect the Christian church near Harris Prairie — the congregation's course is the Religion section's. His first presidential vote went to Frémont, the Republican party's first nominee, a detail Howard's sketch keeps because Christian kept it.
Sources:
- Howard (1907), vol. 2, biographical sketches — the Christian sketch whole.