John Sharp |
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In the spring of 1867 he moved on a farm near Elwood, Indiana, and remained until the fall of 1870, when he moved to Frankton, and shortly after engaged in mercantile business with C. and Wm. H. H. Quick, under the firm name of C. Quick & Co., with which firm he remained until September, 1878, when. he engaged in the grain trade for a period of three years. Since that time he has been engaged in farming and breeding short-horn cattle. Mr. Sharp is a Mason, having joined the order at Elwood in 1868. He joined the G. A. R. in the spring of 1874, being a charter member of Frankton Post No. 349, and its commander the three first years of its existence. My first acquaintance with Mr. Sharp was at Middletown, Indiana, where we enlisted together in Company H, 69th Indiana Volunteers, now over a quarter of a century ago. Oh, how time flies! We were then young and active, but time has wrought great changes in us both. I have often met him since our first acquintance, and have found him at all times a worthy comrade and friend. |
Samuel Hardin, Anderson, Indiana, 1888 |