J. W. BAINUM, farmer, Clay Township, was born in Hogan Township, Dearborn County, Indiana, September 15,1851. His parents, William and Aloveda (Williams) Bainum, were natives of Indiana and England. The former was born in Dearborn County, Indiand, in the year 1810, and the latter in Cornwallshire, England, in the year 1815. They were married in Dearborn County, Indiana and afterward settled on a farm in Hogan Township, where they still reside. They were the parents of nine children: Elizabeth, Benjamin, Martha, Mary Louisa, James W., Vienna, Agnes and one infant daughter (the eldest of the family), who died in infancy unnamed. J. W., our subject, was united in marriage at Aurora, Indiana, October 15,1870, to Harriet, daughter of John and Catherine (Lindsay) Spidell. She was born in Hogan Township, this county, August 27, 1851. After our subject's marriage he first settled at Wilmington. where he resided until March, 1881, at which time he moved to Clay Township and settled on the farm where he now lives and has since resided. He owns 155 acres of fine land.

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Source of this article "HISTORY OF DEARBORN AND OHIO COUNTIES, INDIANA"-1885

SUBMITTED BY: John Minneman