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JOHN E. NORTH, farmer and teacher ; P. O. Weavers Station; one of the rising young men of Neave Township; is a son of Allen and Mary A. (Fry) North; Allen North (deceased) was a resident of Neave Township for many years, and was a very active and successful citizen; his father at one time owned a tract of land upon which a part of the city of Indianapolis now stands; here Allen was born; his father died while he was yet a boy, and his mother married again; through the intemperance of his stepfather, the family was made poor, and Allen, though a youth, was the main support of his mother for several years. At the time of his marriage, an old horse constituted his capital, at the time of his death he had accumulated about $20,000 worth of property, mostly real estate, besides a policy of $10,000 on his life; the widow now resides at the old homestead, in Sec. 26. The subject of this sketch was born in Neave Township, in 1851, and grew to manhood on the farm, receiving an ordinary common-school education; has taught district school winters for the past eight years, farming, thrashing, etc., during the remainder of the year; has been Township Assessor, and is the present Township Clerk. He was married in 1876 to Mary C., daughter of George Howes; they have one child— George Allen.