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Howard (1907), Vol. 2 biographies
the Chapman Isaac Early (§2) at Howard length (Part 68, pp. 983–985). B. 7 Mar. 1838, Rockingham Co., Va., son of Jacob (b. c. 1818, Rockingham Co.; d. 1905 in Ohio) and Mary (Simmons) Early (b. c. 1815, Va.; d. 1882) (Part 68). Three brothers (Noah, Abraham, Jonas) were Civil War soldiers; Abraham was seven months in Libby Prison (Part 68). Isaac: bought his time from his father at twenty-one (earning $15 a month as a carpenter/joiner); taught two terms after his marriage; m. 18 Apr. 1861 Mary E. Irvin (b. 15 May 1843, Augusta Co., Va.); eight children, all living, named — incl. Charles Early (a separate sketch elsewhere in the volume, per this entry), William I. (principal of the Huntington public schools for five years), and John J. (superintendent of the Warsaw public schools for four years) (Part 68). Sold in 1865 and came to St. Joseph County, locating in Liberty Township four miles northeast of North Liberty; first purchase 200 acres partially improved, $4,000 indebtedness assumed; later sold and leased a farm at the eastern limits of the village (Part 68). Chosen as a minister in 1868; laboured twenty-eight years until his health failed (German Baptist church) (Part 68). Served three years as a county commissioner, at pointer here — the register’s only county-office fact for a Liberty man in either bedrock history, with no years given (Part 68). D. 14 Aug. 1907, aged 69-5-7 — as printed in the entry (a death date inside a 1907 volume; printed as reached) (Part 68). [PROFILE] Carrying fact: minister, 200-acre purchaser, and county commissioner in one Liberty life — the office is cross-pointed to the government leg, the ministry to the Religion section; People keeps the whole man at profile size.