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Note: \tx4480\tx5040\tx5600\tx6160\tx6720\pardirnatural\f0\fs24 \cf0 --1860 Boone co IN census, Sugar Creek twp with parents \par --1870 Boone co IN census, Sugar Creek twp with parents \par --1880 Boone Co IN census, Sugar Creek twp with parents and aunt Harriet Huber \par --1900 Boone Co IN census, Sugar Creek twp, Thornton, wife & children, and cousin James Huber age 38, born IL \par --1910 Boone Co IN census, Sugar Creek twp, Thornton, wife & children \par --BIO OF HARVEY W. HUBER Source: History of Boone County, Indiana, by Hon. L.M. Crist, 1914. (Notes in italics mine) \par --The people who constitute the bone and sinew of this country are not those who are unstable and unsettled; who fly from this occupation to that, who take no active and intelligent interest in affairs affecting public utilities, schools, churches and good roads. The backbone of this country is made up of the families who have made their home, who are alive to the best interests of the community in which they reside, who are so honest that it is no trouble for their neighbors to know it, who attend to their own business and are too busy to meddle in that of others; who work on steadily from day to day, taking the sunshine with the storm and who rear a fine family to a comfortable home and an honest life. Such people are always welcome in any community and any country. They are wealth producers, and this county is blessed with many of them among which is that of HARVEY W. HUBER, well-known farmer of Sugar Creek township, where he has spent his entire life, having enjoyed the privilege of living on the old home place all the while, which he no doubt regards, as he should, as one of life's chief blessings, for as John Howard Payne well observed, "There is no place like home." \par --Mr. Huber was born in Sugar Creek township, Boone county, July 16, 1857. He is a son of VALENTINE and AMELIA (KASHNER) HUBER, natives of Ohio. The paternal grandparents, WILLIAM and ELIZABETH (Hefler, should read KEFFER) HUBER, were natives of Germany, and the maternal grandparents (actually they were both from Berlin, Somerset Co PA), ABRAHAM and BETSEY (ABERNATHY) KASHNER, were natives of Pennsylvania. The latter family came to Montgomery county, Indiana in 1830 and entered land from the government. \par --VALENTINE HUBER grew to manhood in Ohio and was educated and married there, and in 1853 he came to Boone county, Indiana, and bought a farm of ninety-four acres in Sugar Creek township. His first wife died in 1854, without issue. In December, 1855, he married AMELIA KASHNER, mother of our subject. The elder Huber was a good farmer and prospered and he kept adding to his original farm here until he owned at the time of his death, February 8, 1889, one hundred and thirty-seven acres of valuable land. His second wife preceded him to the grave in February, 1888. HARVEY W. HUBER, of this sketch, was their only child. He grew to manhood on the home farm and received his education in the district schools. He remained with his parents during their life, and upon their death he inherited the homestead and here he has remained, carefully managing the same and keeping it well improved and under a fine state of cultivation. By close application and good management he has prospered and added to his original holdings until he is now owner of three hundred and eighty-eight acres, constituting one of the most valuable and most desirable farms in the township, on which he carries on general farming and stock raising on an extensive scale. He has a pleasant home in the midst of attractive surroundings, and has kept the buildings all well repaired. \par --Mr. Huber was married December 26, 1882 to MARY ELIZABETH TITUS, who was born in Washington township, Boone county, where she grew to womanhood and was educated. She is a daughter of SAMUEL and JANE (Wilkins) TITUS, both natives of Indiana, the father of Boone county, where he became a well-known citizen. \par --STEPHEN TITUS, father of SAMUEL TITUS came from Pennsylvania in 1831 and entered one hundred and sixty acres in Washington township; then walked back to Pennsylvania and returned with his family. His wife's name was NANCY (Barton) Titus of Pennsylvania. Both lived to a ripe old age. Samuel Titus was married in 1855 to Jane Wilkins. \par --The following children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Huber: URBAN W. HUBER lives in Washington township; BEULAH is the wife of CARL RINER and they live in Jefferson township; VERVA HUBER, ERNEST HUBER, JOHN TITUS HUBER, AMELIA JANE HUBER, and NATHAN KASHNER HUBER, are all at home. \par --Politically, Mr. Huber is a Democrat, religiously a Presbyterian, and fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America, both of Thorntown. \par --Mr. Huber is deserving of a great deal of credit for what he has accomplished. He was born in a two-story log house, with a fire-place both below and above. In 1867 his father built a story and a half brick house-and the log house was torn down. His present modern thirteen-roomed house was built in 1901. It has all the modem improvements and is one of the most comfortable and well furnished homes in the county. He also has a splendid bank barn, forty-two by fifty-eight feet, with twenty foot posts, which barn was erected in the fall of 1895 but not entirely completed until the following year. It is up-to-date in every respect, with cement floors and is sanitary and comfortable, both a general and dairy barn, and he keeps twenty good dairy cows. All his land is used in his superb system of twentieth century agriculture. All his land lies in a rich bottom with the exception of seventy acres of upland. It is, on the whole, one of the show places in Boone county, and is named the Hidaway Farm. Mr. Huber is a breeder and preserver of the original big type spotted Poland China hogs and was one of the promoters in the organization of the American spotted Poland China Record Company which was organized at Indianapolis January 1, 1914.}
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