John Townsend ^{1 2}

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Book: Biographical Memoirs of Blackford County, Indiana, 1900. ²
Among the prominent business men of Hartford City may be mentioned Ira L. Townsend. Mr. Townsend was born in Blackford County, November 10, 1852, and was a son of John and Temperance (Bailey) Townsend. John Townsend, the father of our subject, was a son of Gilbert and Mary (Saxon) Townend. He was born in Steuben County, New York where he married Temperance Householder, daughter of William and Elizabeth Householder, by whom he had ten children; Mary E. (Mrs. John Hedge); Emily T. (Mrs. Phillip Covault); Lydia (Mrs. Aaron Casterline); John W.; Henry H.; Louis B.; Ira L., the subject; Charles M. (deceased), Halstead, and George O., (deceased). The Townsend family are of English descent and located in New York State. At an early day John Townsend removed to Pennsylvania and in 1840 located in Blackford County and engaged in farming, which occupation he followed until his death in Illinois, where he removed when our subject was but a child.

John married Temperance Householder. (Temperance Householder was born on 13 Jun 1817,³ died on 1 Nov 1893 ³ and was buried in Crete: Riverside Cemetery, Saline, NE ³.)