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Patrick Shields

Georgetown, Indiana
· Bicentennial Celebration of First Georgetown Settlers
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Patrick Shields, husband of Mary Nantz Shields and father of James and Henry, served in 1811 as an aide to General Wm H Harrison in the Tippecanoe Campaign, was a delegate to the Indiana Constitutional Convention in 1816 and signed the historic document at Corydon's Constitutional Elm, and in 1825 built Georgetown's first water sawmill; he was a respected pioneer citizen, businessman, magistrate, and judge.
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