Emanuel Pence, prominent as a citizen and farmer of Richland township, Grant county, Indiana, was born in Champaign county, Ohio, July 7, 1832, and is a son of the honored pioneer, Lewis and Savilla (Norman) Pence, whose life-history may be found in the sketch of Lewis J. Pence.

        Emanuel Pence was but ten years of age when brought to Grant county by his parents, and may be classed among the young pioneers, as he assisted in clearing up the parental farms in Richland township, being brought here at the age of thirteen. He has always followed the vocation to which he was reared.

        In 1856, in Franklin township, Grant county, Mr. Pence married Miss Mary F. Coffman, a native of Pennsylvania, and a daughter of John and Margaret (Baker) Coffman, who came from the Keystone state to Grant county in an early day and developed a farm from the wilds of Franklin township. To Mr. and Mrs. Pence have been born five children: Edward G., who died young; Milo, a resident of Converse; Mrs. Laura J. Snyder, on the home farm; William S. (married) and David F., also on the parental homestead, but Mrs. Pence passed away in 1882.

        In politics Mr. Pence is a stalwart Republican, and is quite active in his work for the party. He is classed with the most prosperous agriculturist of his township, and his farm of one hundred and sixty acres in section 27, Richland township, which he cleared up from the woods, is now in a good state of cultivation and is a model of neatness and fruitfulness. Like all the rest of this pioneer family, he ranks high in the esteem of his fellow-citizens.