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E. CASE, Fulton County, is a native of Spencer County, Ind., and was born January 5, 1821. His parents, Joshua and Ann (Green) Case, were both natives of Chenango County, N. Y., and among the early settlers of southern Indiana. The father was a farmer, and died when subject was in his infancy. Immediately after her husband’s death Mrs. Case came to Kentucky, settling in Daviess County, where she died in January, 1830, at the age of thirty years. An orphan at the age of nine years, our subject was apprenticed to a tailor in Owensboro, Ky. He remained an apprentice until eighteen years of age, when on account of ill treatment he revolted, and for three years traveled over various parts of Indiana, Alabama, Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee and Kentucky, working at his trade. In June, 1842, he came to Hickman, then known as Mills’ Point, and opened a tailor shop in the place, and for thirty years thereafter carried on a very successful trade, amassing a handsome fortune in the meantime. In connection with his trade he also ran a general mercantile house for a number of years, and ever since 1842 has been prominently identified with the business interests of his adopted city, being the oldest male resident at the present time. He served as postmaster for a period of eighteen or twenty years, retiring from the office in 1883. He was married in October, 1848, to Mrs. Sarah Ann Holt, of Smith County, Tenn., by whom he had three children, all deceased. Mr. Case is prominently connected with the I. O. O. F., being one of the oldest members of the society in western Kentucky. He is also an active temperance man, and a deacon in the Baptist Church, a position he has honorably filled for many years. In politics he votes with the Republican party.