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Counties of PORTER and Lake Indiana.
Historical and Biographical
Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor
Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor
F. A. Battey & Co., Pub., Chicago - 1882

   231-232

        JACOB AXE (deceased), one of the pioneers of Porter County, was
     a native of Virginia, and in 1828, his mother, CHRISTINA (KESECKER)
     AXE, widow of WILLIAM AXE, moved with her family to Wayne Co., Ohio,
     where she died in March, 1836.  JACOB AXE there married Miss AGNES C.
     CORNELL, and in 1836 they, in company with WILLIAM DYE and family, and
     ELIAS AXE, a younger brother, started into Indiana with teams and
     wagons, and after a trip of eighteen days through swamps, with no road
     and an almost incessant rain-falling, arrived in Porter County.  The
     first home of JACOB AXE was on College Hill, in Valparaiso, where he
     remained about three months, afterward moving one and one-half miles
     east of the village (which then comprised about six houses), into a
     log cabin erected by some squatter.  The spring of 1836, he returned
     to the village and engaged in work at his trade - carpenter and
     joiner.  He then bought the Sager mill property, but sold it at the
     end of about a year, and engaged in farming east of town some six or
     seven years, succeeding which he moved to the farm now owned by his
     son, CYRUS.  He was then engaged in a number of different movements,
     principally farming, working at his trade and merchandising is Val-
     paraiso.  He was an active and energetic citizen, and a man who com-
     manded universal respect.  He was a Democrat, and he and his wife were
     members of the Christian Church.  He died August 5, 1853, and his
     widow married JAMES BUNDY, who died some few months after their mar-
     riage.  Mrs. BUNDY then moved to Delaware County, Iowa, where she
     married WILLIAM CATES, and where both are still living.  CYRUS, a son
     of JACOB and AGNES AXE was born in Wayne County, Ohio, June 4, 1834,
     and was reared to manhood in Porter County.  His occupation has been
     stock dealing, and for the past few years he has been operating a meat
     market in conjunction with his other business.  He spent the summer of
     1861 in Colorado, where he went in pursuit of health and on a mining
     expedition.  In 1864, he was in Montana, where he and others were en-
     gaged in freighting goods across the plains.  The summers of 1865 and
     1866, he fitted out wagons and sent them loaded across the plains in
     charge of his younger brother, NATHANIEL.  In 1870, he went to Salt
     Lake Valley, where he engaged in shipping stock.  He was married in
     1865, to Miss HARRIET L. FINNEY, whose parents were old settlers of
     Porter County.  To them have been born four children - ADDISON C.,
     HATTIE B., LIDA M., and PEARL.  Mrs. AXE is a member of the Baptist
     Church, and Mr. AXE is a Democrat and an Odd Fellow.  He owns 155
     acres of good land in Centre Township, besides valuable town property.
     The spring of 1880, a part of his land lying between the college
     grounds and the N.Y., C & St. L. R. R. depot was annexed to the
     corporate city limits, and is known as AXE'S Sub-Division.

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