Biographical sketch extracted from:

Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. p. 852-853.

DAVID NOE, one of the early settlers of Chester Township, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, twenty-five miles east of Cincinnati, the date of his birth being December 29, 1818. His father, Searing NOE, was a native of North Carolina, born in Surry County, and when two years of age was taken by his parents to Ohio, his father working at the shoemaker’s trade at Cincinnati some eight or ten years while the family lived on the farm in Clermont County. There Searing NOE was reared to the avocation of a farmer, which he followed the greater part of his life. He was married in Clermont County to Miss Margaret McFalls, who was born near Redstone, Virginia, of Irish descent. When David NOE, our subject, was in his fifth year his parents settled in Rush County, Indiana, where the mother died in 1842. The father subsequently sold his property in Rush County and removed to Wapello County, Iowa, where he lived until his death, which occurred about the year 1862. David NOE remained with his parents in Rush County until he was sixteen years of age, where he was reared amid pioneer scenes in that new-settled country. Game was then found in abundance, and much of his time was spent in trapping and hunting. After leaving home he went to live with a great uncle in Montgomery County, Ohio, and while a resident of that county was married near Fort Defiance, Ohio, to Miss Harriet Goodnoe, May 31, 1846. She was born in Madison County, Indiana. Her father came from the State of Massachusetts, and her mother from Pennsylvania. Her father died in Butler County in 1834, and her mother died in Madison County, Indiana, in 1842, while on a visit to the old home place. Of the seven children born to Mr. and Mrs. Noe, one daughter, Louesia, is deceased. Those living are—Mary, wife of Martin Baker, of Jackson Township; Oliver married Cynthia Jane Penrod, and lives in Chester Township; Oscar, living in Liberty Township; Ida, wife of Christopher H. Popejoy, of Liberty Township; Hattie, wife of O. D. Garrett, of Liberty Township, and Ettie, living at home with her parents. In 1852 Mr. Noe came by team to Indiana, bringing his family and household effects in three wagons. They settled on the place in Chester Township where they now reside, Mr. Noe having purchased eighty acres of land here in October, 1837. Before bringing his family here he had hired a man to build him a log cabin. This dwelling was of the rudest description, built without doors or windows, a quilt covering the aperture where the door should be. Mr. Noe did not hunt much after coining to Indiana, although he killed several deer in the early days of the county. He has cleared about sixty acres of his land, and his present farm dwellings and out-buildings are comfortable and commodious, all the improvements on the place being done by Mr. Noe. In politics Mr. Noe has been a lifelong Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for Martin Van Buren in 1840. He has served two terms as assessor of Chester Township, and once was elected justice of the peace, but declined the office. He was a member of the Democratic Central Committee in Chester Township shortly after coming to the county. He is an active and enterprising citizen, and is always interested in the advancement of his township or county, and during his long residence in the county has gained the respect of all who know him.