W. T. Sandusky

H. W. Beckwith, History of Vermilion County (Chicago: H. H. Hill, 1879)

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W. T. Sandusky, Fairmount, farmer and stock-raiser, is the son of William and Julia Sandusky, who were natives of Kentucky and Virginia, and resided in Bourbon county, Kentucky, at the time of the birth of W. T. Sandusky, on the llth of March, 1829, but removed, however, to Shelby county, Illinois, the same year, where his father died, 1830, and his mother in 1839, leaving Mr. Sandusky to act for himself. Mr. Sandusky came to Vermilion county having only a horse and sixteen dollars in money. He followed herding cattle and driving them to the eastern market, working five years for ten and thirteen dollars per month. In 1853 he went to California where he followed mining and superintending a farm. He then returned to this county in 1856, and hence to Putnam county, Indiana, where he engaged in the hotel business until 1866. He then again returned to Vermilion county and purchased his present farm of five hundred acres, which is adapted to his business of stock-raising. On the lst of December, 1859, he was married to Miss Emily Clements, a native of Ohio, born in 1839. They have two daughters: Maggie and Katie.