OSBORNE COUNTY, KS
J. A. FOUTS, clerk, was born in Montgomery County, Ohio, May 7, 1844, and in 1847 moved to Logansport,
Ind., where he was a farmer until August 6, 1861, when he enlisted as private in Company E, Twenty-ninth
Indiana Volunteer Infantry at Logansport, Ind., and discharged as Sergeant at Marietta, Ga., December 2,
1865. At the close of the war he returned to Logansport, where he farmed until 1867, when he moved to
Fulton County, Ind., and engaged in farming until 1876, when he came to Waterville, Kan., as clerk and
book-keeper in dry goods until August, 1878, when he came to Osborne County, Kan., and followed clerking
and book-keeping until employed as clerk for the firm of J. R. Borland, where he is now engaged. He was
married to Miss Mary E. Ferguson in April, 1869. He was wounded in left leg at Chickamauga, Ga.,
September 19, 1863. Is a member of I. O. O. F., A. O. U. W. and G. A. R.
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