Short Biography of Jeremy Mansur

JEREMY MANSUR was born in Temple, Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, December 31, 1791. He came in 1813 from New Hampshire to Cincinnati on horseback, and after a stay of six months, removed to Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, where he was married in 1814 to Jane Carr, and removed the same year to Salisbury, then the county seat of Wayne county, Indiana, where he worked about six years at the edge-tool business. In 1820 or 1821, he settled on a farm between Centerville and Richmond, on the National road. In 1831, he removed to Richmond, and engaged in the mercantile business, which he continued about eight years. He then returned to his farm; and, in 1852, removed to Indianapolis, where he still resides, in the possession of an ample fortune acquired by honest industry. His children were, 1. Mary Ann, who married, first, John H. Wright, who died in Indianapolis, having had four children, two of whom (sons) are living; married, second, Charles Parry, a practicing physician and surgeon, and Vice-President of the Indiana Central Railway, who also died in that city. 2. Clarissa, who married James C. Ferguson, who is engaged in the pork-packing business in Indianapolis. They had seven children, of whom five are living. A daughter, Isabel, died while at school in Kentucky as she was about to graduate. 3. William, who married Hannah Cully in Indianapolis, and had three sons - one living. He has long been engaged in pork-packing, and is a director of the Citizens' Bank. 4. Sarah Jane, who married Wm. S. Reid, of Richmond. [See Sketch.] 5. Isaiah, who married Amelia Brown of Philadelphia, and is extensively engaged in banking in Indianapolis. 6. Franklin, who married Sarah Grewel in Indianapolis, and resides there. 7. James Carr, who died at the age of three years.

Source: "History of Wayne county, Indiana, from its first settlement to the present time : with numerous biographical and family sketches" ⁴⁰²²