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John P. Tinkham, a prominent dealer in wood and coal at Fort Wayne, was born in Delaware county, ohio, 1/13/1832. His father, Isaac Tinkham, a native of Vermont, married Sarah Mapes, a native of New York, and about 1820 they bacame pioneer settlers in Delaware county, Ohio. In 1837 they joined the advance guard of civilization in Indiana, settling in Adams county, where the father died in 1844. The mother then removed to Whitley county, thence to Lafayette, and then to Allen county, where she died about 1877. They had 4 children, of whom 2 survive, the subject of this mention and Benjamin F. Tinkham. The latter enlisted in the 20th Indiana, in 1861, and served 3 years. He was taken prisoner and confined in Libby prison, and was on ship board during the diastrous storm off Hatteras Inler, and suffered all the hardships of war. He is now a resident of Fort Wayne... more at http://books.google.com/books?id=whkVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA220&dq=%22Tinkham%22+%22Adams+County%22&as_brr=1#PPA221,M1
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