Philip Harter (1790 - 1875)

Born 6 Dec 1790 in Brownsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Alice (Van Ausdal) Harter — married 28 Apr 1812 in Preble, Ohio, United States

Husband of Mary (Richardson) Harter — married 15 Aug 1848 in Tippecanoe county, Indiana

Descendants

Died 16 Dec 1875 at age 85 in Montgomery, Indiana, United States

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Biography

Phillip was born in 1790 to Adam Harter and Esther Hardman in Brownsville, Pennsylvania. In 1800, his family moved to Preble County, Ohio.

In 1812, Phillip married Ally Van Ausdal in Preble County.

During the War of 1812, Phillip served under Captain L. Phillips command in the Ohio Militia. He served 6 months and was honorably discharged in December 1813.

In 1821 Phillip, as a non-resident landholder, paid tax on 220 acres in Preble County, Ohio. (140 acres in E 1/2 Sec 7, T8, R1 and 80 acres in E1/2 Sec 10, T5, R 3)

In 1829, Phillip built a saw and grist mill and a carding mill on Wea Creek, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. These two buildings were the first of their kind in the county.

In 1875, Phillip passed away in Tippecanoe County. He is buried in Romney Cemetery.

Tercentenary of New England Families, 1620-1922 by American Historical Society, 1922, pp. 170 & 173 [1][formatting has been to enhance readability]

(II) PHILIP HARTER was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1790, and died near Romney, Indiana, December 16, 1875. Six months after his marriage in 1812, he was drafted in the army under the command of General Harrison in the war against the Indians and was taken to Greeneville, Fort Meigs, Defiance, Recovery, and all through the line of forts on the western frontiers to Detroit.

In the year 1817, he moved to Richmond Wayne county, Indiana, and built the third house in that town, which he used as a dwelling and tavern. Among his guests were the early settlers of Wayne county, Chief Godfred, of the Pottowatomie nation of Indians, and other distinguished chiefs and head men of the various tribes that occasionally passed through the Whitewater Valley, which was the remote verge of civilization of the West. Lorenzo Dow, the eccentric and celebrated evangelist whose "field was the world," stopped several times at Mr Harter's tavern and shared the hospitalities of "mine host" without money and without price.

Philip Harter also erected the first woolen factory in Richmond. It was propelled by a forty-foot overshot wheel, which was a marvel to all who saw it. Harter's tavern was the last public house between the west line of Ohio and the Wabash river.

In 1829, he removed with his family to Tippecanoe county, and erected a mill and carding machine on the Wea, four miles south of LaFayette, where he ground "grists" and "carded rolls" from which were spun yarn for the early settlers of the Wabash Valley.

He lived to see the development of the resources of the "Great West," which, from small frontier settlements, grew into mighty populous States, extending from the western base of the Allegheny mountains to the far-off Pacific, and witnessed one of the most thrilling epochs in the history of the world. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for the last twenty-five years of his life, died a devoted Christian, and was buried in the cemetery at Romney, Tippecanoe county, Indiana.

He married, April 28, 1812, Alice Van Ausdal, born in Berkeley county, Virginia, May 14, 1794, sister of Cornelius and Peter Van Ausdal, who left the Virginia home to locate in Ohio. Issue:

1. Isaac Van Ausdal, born September 5, 1813, died December 15, 1840.

2. John Van Ausdal, born July 17, 1816, died August 20, 1857.

3. James, born May 26, 1819.

4. William Campbell, of whom further.

5. Joseph Noble, born August 30, 1825, died October 19, 1869.

6. Sarah Monfort, born February 11, 1833, married, April 21, 1852, John Burton Hooper, born January 7, 1824, died 1898. She resides in Watseka, Illinois.

Sources

• Findagrave [2]

Acknowledgments

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