Albany, Indiana - Albany also got its start as a river trading point. It was laid out there on the Mississinewa at the crossing of the county roads in section 2 of township 21, range 11 (Delaware), by William Venard on December 11, 1833. The original plat is a plat of six blocks cut by the county road (now Water street )on the north and Main street, east and west, and the county road (now State street) and First and Second streets, north and south, the streets being four poles in width and the alleys twelve feet. The plat was surveyed by Samuel R. Collier, the first surveyor of Delaware county, afterward county recorder, who was perhaps the most highly cultured man of his generation in this county and whose characteristically graceful and flourishing quill so unmistakably adorned the pages of the deed records of this county during the years 1834-37.
(Source: History of Delaware County, Indiana, Frank D. Haimbaugh, 1924, Vol 1, page 401)

Anderson , William F., a prominent farmer and stock raiser, and one of the large land holders of Monroe township, was born in Miami county, Ohio, January 21, 1854, and is a son of Joseph and Mary (Smith) Anderson. His paternal ancestors were early residents of Virginia, in which state his grandfather was a planter and large slave holder. Joseph and Mary Anderson had a family of eight children whose names are as follows: Maggie, wife of Charles Malcolm; David H.; John W.; James J.; Charles E.; Joseph H.; and Sallie, wife, of H. H. Youngs; and the gentleman whose name introduces this sketch. William F. Anderson spent the years of his youth and early manhood in his native state where he was raised on the farm, and in April, 1875, became a resident of Delaware county, Ind., settling in the township of Monroe, where he now has a beautiful farm, consisting of 300 acres of good land, upon which are some of the best improvements in the township. Mr. Anderson has made a success of farming, and the comfortable competence which he now enjoys is largely the result of his own well directed efforts, and through real estate received by marriage. He received his education in the schools of his native state, was a teacher for some time, and having always been a reader and observer, is now one of the well informed men of the community in which he resides. The father of Mr. Anderson died August 3, 1886, and his widowed mother still resides in Miami county, Ohio. December 23, 1875, solemnized the marriage of William F. Anderson and Martha Clark, the issue of which union is two children, namely: Charles E. and Anna B. Mrs. Anderson's parents were natives of Virginia, and members of the Roman Catholic church. She had two sisters, namely: Mary J., wife of Thaddeus Tuthill; and Julia A., who died February, 1876.
(Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Delaware and Randolph Counties, A. W. Bowen, publishers, 1894, page 606.)

Armitage, Rachel McDonald - see John D. Bartling
Ashwell, Margaret - see Lee Shaw