Economy, Indiana

Richard Williams, from Tenu., settled, Dec, 1814, one-fourth of a mile west of town, where his son John M. Williams lives. He had other sons, William, Alfred, Elam, and Millikin, who reside in Westville. Robert Canaday, from Tenn., settled near Economy in 1814, and died there in 1836 or 1837. He had two sons, Joshua and Thomas. Henry and Moses Mills, from Tenn., settled in 1815 on the present sitQ of Economy. Henry sold to Elihu Swain and Wm. Locke, who, in 1818 or 1819, sold to Charles Osborn, who laid out the town. Of the quarter section on which the town stands, those portions which lie outside of the town, are owned by John Osborn, Thomas B. and John M.Williams, Wm. Clark, and Samuel L. McDonald. Elihu and Samuel Swain, fi'om Tenn., settled on land now owned by the heirs of Elihu Swain, Jun. Elihu Swain and a son, Ira, reside in town. Miles Marshall, from Tenn., settled on Green's Fork, near Washington; returned south in January, 1813, and after the war of 1812, came back, and settled, about 1815, near Economy ; removed ten or twelve years ago to Iowa, and died there about 1867 or 1868. John Canaday, brother of Robert, settled, about 1816, south side of tlie town ; land now owned by Jesse H. Greenstreet, Jonathan B. Clark, and Philip Replogle, lately by Wm. Lewis. Wm. Blount, from Pa. to Ky., in 1800, and thence, in 1805, to Wayne township, and about the year 1814 to Perr\% a mile west of Economy, on land north of Macy's, on which Jesse Willetts afterward settled, now^ owned by Edwin P. and Julia Thornburg, and Thomas J.Cook. Several of Blount's sons removed to Henry Co., and laid out the town of Blountsville. The father removed about 1830 to Delaware Co. Thomas Gallon, Ky., settled IJ miles south-west of town, on land now owned by George Comer, lately by J. Ilartup. James Warren, from Tenn., on land now owned by Elvan Thornburg. Jonathan Macy, from Tenn., next north of Warren ; he was an early justice and a merchant. The lands settled by Robert Canaday and Miles Marshall, in or about the year 1814 and 1815, are said to be those now owned by Lindsey Canaday, John A. Shepard, Matilda, widow of Jonathan B. Macy, and others.

Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.

Daniel Mills, from N. C. in 1804, and from Ohio in 1816, on lands now owned by Wilson Pierce, Isaac B. Underbill, and Josef)b L. Wood. Miles Marshall, of Tenn., and Thomas Carr, of O., on lands now owned by John M, and Merchant B. Williams and Jonathan Brewer. Thomas Carr also owned land where the heirs of Kichard Pugh reside. David Osborn, a Carolinian, from 0., in 1816, settled on land now owned by John X. Dean, lately by Tliomas B. Williams. John Jordan, who had settled in 1810 in what is now Boston township, removed in 1815 to the north-west corner section of this townsliip, where he died. The entire section, a part of which was recently owned by T. D. Barnett, is now owned by his son Wm. Jordan and his sons John W. and George !M., and by John P. Jordan, nephew of Wm. Jordan. About the year 1815, Wm. Fife and his son-in-law, Jonathan Thornburg, of Tenn., and Amy Hall, settled where Jonathan Thornburg lives, on the township north line. In 1816, George Hobson, from Tenn., on land now owned by Charity Gwinn and Jonathan Brewer.

Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.

Robert Canady, in 1819, built a Saw-mill half a mile from Economy, on Martindale's creek, (so named from John Martindale, an early settler on the stream,) Abel Lomax, masterbuilder. By repairs and rebuilding a mill has been kept there until the present time ; present owner, John A. Shepard. An oil-mill was built at the same place as early as 1830; proprietors, Richard Williams, Wm. Barnard, and Matthew Williams, and was run six or seven years. About the year 1827, a grist-mill was started by Daniel and Richard Mills and Thomas Cox, a mile below town, and was run about ten years. A steam grist-mill and saio-mill were built at Economy about the year 1830, by Nathan Proctor, and run about five years. John and Larkin Maulsby built, in 1849, a steam saw-mill, and afterward added a corn-cracker. They were run but a few years.

Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.

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