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ADAM VENCILL, grain dealer, Saybrook; was born in Tazewell Co., Va., Dec. 20, 1826; When he was 4 years of age, his parents moved to Decatur Co., Ind., remaining there two years, and afterward to Clinton Co., where his father died in 1833. His mother married again, and, in 1841, went to Tippecanoe Co., Ind., where she now resides. The subject of this sketch; at the age of 20, started in life for himself, working upon a farm until the age of 25; then rented a farm for four years, and, having purchased a farm of 160 acres, farmed it for twelve years; having leased his farm in the year 1863, he went to La Fayette and engaged in the grocery business for four years, and having sold out engaged in the grain business in La Fayette for two years; and then went to White Co., Ind., and purchased a warehouse, and built a flouring-mill in connection with it, which he carried on for six years; having sold it, he went to Indianapolis, engaged in grocery business, then returned to La Fayette; for one year engaged in grain business, and, in spring of 1876, came to Saybrook, and has been engaged in grain business up to the present. He married Miss Mahala Potter, of Tippecanoe Co., Ind., Jan. 22, 1856; she died in spring of 1857. He married his second wife, Miss Eliza T. Frazier, April 3, 1859. He had one child by first wife — Laura I., who died in August, 1870; and six children by present wife, four living — Edgar A., Hattie E., Henry A. and Clara E.; two died — Charles M. and John W. T.