The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Eel River Township, pages 580-581
Jeremiah F. Radford was born March 10, 1850, in Putnam County, Ky., and is a son of Jephtha (deceased) and Nancy J. Radford, who were natives of Kentucky. Of his father's family of thirteen children, five are now living--John W., Jeremiah F., Louisa, Nancy C. and Charles H. From his boyhood our subject has devoted himself to agricultural pursuits, in which he has been eminently successful. He is the owner of a farm containing eight and a half acres in a fine state of cultivation, situated in the western part of this township, on which he settled in 1876. He received a fair English education in his youth, and Nov. 6, 1873, he was married to Miss Nancy A. Gillin, a daughter of Willis Y. Gillin, of Putnam County, Ind. They are the parents of one child--Freddie, born Aug. 3, 1879. Politically Mr. Radford casts his suffrage with the Democratic Party.