The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Liberty Township, pages 646-647
Amos D. McCormick, farmer and stock-raiser, Liberty Township, is a native of Fayette County, Ind., born near Connersville, Aug. 23, 1819, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Case) McCormick, his father a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1789, and his mother a native of Kentucky. Samuel McCormick moved with his parents to Ohio when a boy, and was there married. He located in Preble County after his marriage, and later moved to Butler County, and thence, in 1812, to Fayette County, Ind. He helped to build a fort on the present site of Connersville, but owing to Indiana troubles returned to Ohio, but a year later moved again to Fayette County, and in 1820 to Indianapolis, where he cleared fifteen acres of land, which is now included in the public square. In 1836 he moved to Hendricks County, and settled near where our subject now lives. In 1864 he moved to Cartersburg, and in 1866 returned to the farm where he died in June, 1867. His wife died in 1834. Their family consisted of eight sons and two daughters--John, Jacob, William, Dorcas, Archibald, Amos D., James, Thomas, Elizabeth, and a son not named, of whom but two sons are living. In 1838 he married Matilda Clark, who survived him till July, 1870, and to this union were born four children--Samuel L., Harvey, Virrinda and Riley. He was a member of the Baptist church, and for many years was a preacher in the denomination. Amos D. McCormick was reared in Marion County, Ind., and there received the greater part of his education, completing it in Hendricks County. Since reaching manhood he has given his attention to agricultural pursuits and now has a good farm of eighty-four acres. He was married in 1838 to Susannah Jordan, daughter of Aquila and Elizabeth Jordan, early settlers of Hendricks County, where the father died July 8, 1844, and the mother in December, 1864. To Mr. and Mrs. McCormick have been born two sons--Aquila S. and John W.