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William Louis Herrington
1860 - 1943 (82 years)
Has 17 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
1878 - 1942 (64 years)-
Name William Louis Herrington Birth 07 Nov 1860 Greene County, Indiana 
Gender Male Death 08 Aug 1943 Greene County, Indiana - William L. Herrington
William L. Herrington is among the few who find their native community good enough to spend their lives in, so he has remained in Richland township, Greene county, since his birth, November 7, 1860. After receiving a common school education and living at home until he was twenty-two years old, he located two and one-half miles northwest of Bloomfield, Indiana, where he farmed for seventeen years. In 1901 he was appointed superintendent of the Greene county poor asylum, and is now serving his fourth term. He is generally popular in his native county, being an active worker in the Democratic party, a Presbyterian and a member of the Order of Red Men, Lodge No. 230, of Bloomfield. It is said by many that no other man has filled the office he now holds so well as he.
The subject was married on March 18, 1844, to Camma Workman, of Highland township. They have no children. His wife is the daughter of Henry and Sarah (Buckner) Workman, of Highland township, Greene county. Mr. Workman married the second time, choosing for a wife Mahela Buckner, who is still living in Bloomfield. He was a farmer. Both he and his first wife are now deceased.
Lewis Herrington, father of the subject, lived in Monroe county, Indiana, and married Caroline Miller, of near Dayton, Ohio. He had little chance to go to school and at the age of fourteen years went to live with George Bradford, where he remained for nine years, after which he took up farming in Richland township, Greene county. Later he went to Illinois, but returned to his old community in Greene county, Indiana, where he continued farming. He was a Democrat and a Presbyterian. He died about 1887 and his wife died in 1895. They are survived by four children--the subject of this sketch, Samuel H., a farmer in Fountain county, Indiana, who married Martha Bailes; Thomas N., now in Los Angeles, California, formerly of Colorado and Kansas. He is an express messenger and married Prudence Thompson. Pearl is the wife of Harry Doyle, of Richland township, Greene county.
James Herrington was the subject's grandfather. He was a native of Kentucky and married Sarah Underwood, of Lawrence county, Indiana. He came to the latter state and settled in Greene county, where he managed a farm for many years. He married a second wife, Elizabeth Scott, and they moved to Clark county, Illinois, where they both died. James Herrington had six children, three by each wife. They are Lewis, John, Perry, George, James and Mary.
John Miller was the subject's maternal grandfather, a native of Philadelphia. He married Elnora Imboden and they went to Ohio, settling near Dayton. Later they came to Richland township, Greene county, Indiana, and secured two hundred and forty acres of land, where they lived for eleven years. He was a farmer and blacksmith. He retired in 1890 and moved to Bloomfield, Indiana, where he died in 1902. His second wife was Elizabeth Barton, of South Carolina. She died in 1904 in Worthington. He had nine children, all by his first wife. They were: Mariah, living near Tulip, Indiana; Catherine, living in Highland township; Elizabeth, living in Bloomfield; Leah lives in Bloomington; Caroline, mother of the subject; Mary lives in Bloomfield; Henry lives near Tulip; John, deceased; David.
Source: "Biographical Memoirs of Greene county, Ind. with Reminiscences of Pioneer Days", B.F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis, IN, 1908, pages 885-887.
Siblings3 Siblings Patriarch & Matriarch 
William Lewis Herrington, b. 2 Feb 1830, Indianad. 7 Jan 1887 (Age 56 years) (Father) 
Maria Siegchrist, b. 1768 d. 1839 (Age 71 years) (Great Grandmother)Person ID I8968 FeldmanTree Last Modified 22 Aug 2008
Father William Lewis Herrington, b. 2 Feb 1830, Indiana d. 7 Jan 1887 (Age 56 years) Mother Caroline Miller, b. 9 Jan 1839, Ohio d. 30 Sep 1895 (Age 56 years) Family ID F2165 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Birth - 07 Nov 1860 - Greene County, Indiana 
Death - 08 Aug 1943 - Greene County, Indiana = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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