CLINTON COUNT OHIO - BIOS:  TRADER, ROBERT W. (published 1917)
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THE MAKING OF A TOWNSHIP
Being an Account of the Early Settlement and Subsequent Development of
FAIRMOUNT TOWNSHIP GRANT COUNTY, INDIANA 1829-1917
Edgar Baldwin Printing Company, 1917
Page 167

        ROBERT W. TRADER, prominent in the early days in the Wesleyan Back
Creek neighborhood, was born in Clinton County, Ohio, June 30, 1828. His
grandfather was Arthur Trader, of Virginia. His father was William Trader
born in Virginia in 1801, and died in October, 1867, and the mother born in
Clinton County, Ohio in 1801 and died in 1855. Robert Trader came to Grant
County in 1842, and with the exception of sixteen years spent in
Alexandria, Indiana, he has lived in Fairmount Township all his adult life,
engaging continuously in farming with the exception of one year he sold
merchandise in Fairmount. He cast his first vote for the Free Soil
candidates, and when the Republican party was organized in 1856 he
supported Gen. John C. Fremont, remaining loyal to this organization until
1884, when he affiliated with the Prohibition party. He was converted in
1848, and became one of the organizers of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in
Fairmount Township, being a charter member. The denomination held its first
meeting, led by Rev. Tharp, in Harvey Davis's home, southwest of Fairmount.
The organizers were Harvey Davis and wife, James Lytle and wife, Lindsay
Buller and wife, John Buller and wife and Robert Trader and wife. Jane
(Davis) Trader, the wife, was born in Madison County, Indiana in 1829, and
died May 9, 1862. They were married in February, 1849. Four children were
born of this marriage, namely, Harvey, Mariah, Mary and Eunice. The second
wife was Phebe Ann Wright, daughter of jesse Wright, and of this union
three children were born, namely, Etta, Oscar and Luther. There were no
children by the third marriage to Nettie Sater, of Alexandria, Indiana.