Biographical sketch extracted from:
Biographical and historical record of
Adams and
Wells counties,
Indiana. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. p. 654.
WILLIAM
DOUGHERTY, deceased, father of
Hon. Hugh and John
DOUGHERTY, who are classed among the active and enterprising men of Bluffton, was born in
Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania, June 20, 1820, a son of Hugh
DOUGHERTY. His parents were natives of Ireland, the mother being of Scotch-Irish ancestry. They left their native country for
America in 1818, bringing with them their only child, Betsy, who is so well and favorably known as Aunt Betsy
Miller, she having married the late Daniel
Miller, and both were numbered among the pioneers of
Wells County. Six children were born to the parents of our subject after coming to
America Margaret, widow of John Tillman; William, whose name heads this sketch; Hugh, deceased; John, of Jay County; Anna, wife of
Crawford Edington, a merchant of Poneto,
Indiana, and Edward, deceased. The father first settled in
Westmoreland County,
Pennsylvania, where he followed farming until 1831. In that year he removed with his family to
Darke County,
Ohio, and settled on a farm near
Greenville, where he died about 1833. William
DOUGHERTY was reared to the avocation of a farmer in
Darke County,
Ohio. He was united in marriage June 7,1841, to Miss Margaret
Studabaker, of
Darke County, where she died August 15, 1860, at the age of thirty-nine years. Mr. Dougherty became a resident of
Adams County,
Indiana, in 1874, where he made his home until his death, which occurred June 2, 1879, at the age of fifty-nine years.