Recollections of the Early Settlement of Carroll County, Indiana;
by Dr. James Hervey Stewart; printed by Hitchcock and Walden, 1872. Page 212.
DAVID HARTER, SR.
DAVID HARTER, SR., removed from Montgomery
County, Ohio, and settled on Bachelor’s Run, in this county, in the Fall of 1827. He
built his first mill in 1831. At the time he settled there, Samuel Wise, on Deer Creek,
was his nearest neighbor, and no one lived east of him this side of the "Miami
Reservation." The Michigan road was not then cut out. The deer would come within
twenty steps of the house. They had no gun then. The Indians were plenty, but they gave no
trouble. They frequently came to trade for corn, meal, etc.
Mr. Harter died June 12, 1840, leaving a large family. He was a good citizen, and very
much respected.
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