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The following Biographical sketch was copied from the book "HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY COUNTIES OF WHITE AND PULASKI, INDIANA. Historical and Biographical. Illustrated. Chicago; F.A. Battey & Co., Publishers. 1883.
page 764, Cass Township, Pulaski County, Indiana.
"AARON ARCHER was born in Champaign County, Ohio, and is second in a family of thirteen children born to BENJAMIN and SUSANNAH (SWISHER) ARCHER. The parents came to this county as far back as 1844, and here they died. AARON was but ten years of age when he came here with his father. At the age of seventeen, he began working for himself at various jobs, saved his earnings, and helped his father pay for an eighty acre farm, and also purchased eighty acres for himself. June 7, 1855, he was married in Jasper County, to MISS MINERVA COOPER. To this union have been born eleven children - M. ELIZA, ASA M., CASSIUS M., EMMA J., F. BELL, BENJAMIN G., JAMES W., ELLA, MAUD M. and CLAUDE W. (twins), and SIBYL E. MR. ARCHER has lived on his present farm since his marriage, and now owns 160 acres, all under fence, and well improved with good frame buildings, etc. MR. and MRS. ARCHER are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which MR. ARCHER is and has been for many years a Trustee."
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