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Adam Bender was born in Nassau, Germany, on the Sth of March, 1821. He was the oldest son of Anthony Bender and Margaret App. He was educated in the public schools in Germany, receiving a fair education. At fifteen he commenced an apprenticeship of three years at the baker's trade, which he thoroughly learned. after- wards being employed as a journeyman in various places in Germany for some twelve years. He was married on the 3d of November, 1848, to Katrina Ernst, born May 23, 1820. Mr. and Mrs. Bender were the parents of four children, of whom but one is living, Katie, who was born April 18, 1874. After marriage he remained in Germany for four years, and came to America in Octo- ber, 1852. He arrived in this county iu January, 1853, having come here from Cincinnati. He couderted the farm then owned by David Girard for one year. thea buying a horse and wagon and engaging in hueksterher for some six months. He carried on the David Shop- herd farm for four years, and then occupied the Juice-
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Becket farm for eight years. In the Spring of 1867 he ; "purchased the place where he still lives, the Sharp farm. He has on this a handsome family residence and ample farm buildings. He owns one hundred and thirteen serez of finely improved land. He had some start in life, but has been industrious and economical. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church at Hamilton.
William Curryer was born in Maryland, July 24, 1778, and was married January 24, 1804, in Maryland, to Sarah Pocock, also of that State, where she was born June 6, 1787. They had six children, only two of whom are living. Edward F. was born December 15, 1805; Elizabeth S., December 10, 1806, marrying Stephen Scudder ; Charity, December 28, 1808, marrying William Lincoln ; Rachel, January 31, 1811, marrying William Smith ; Daniel, June 25, 1813; and Sarah, October 2, 1814, widow of Stephen Scudder. The four former are dead. Mr. Curryer came to Ohio in the Fall of 1812, and settled in Liberty Township, where he pur- chased a quarter of Section 22. His son, Daniel, has just purchased a part of the old homestead. He volun- teered for the War of 1812, but was not called out, as the war ended soon after. He died in Liberty Township, April 8, 1814, and his widow died September 17, 1857. His father, William Curryer, was a soldier of the Revo- lutionary War. He was an Englishman, coming over with the British troops, and stayed in America after the close of the war.
Daniel, the son of the second William, was married November 10, 1836, to Phobe D. Hunt, born in Hunts- ville, Liberty Township, August 9, 1817. She died in Shelby County, Ohio, July 31, 1848. She had five chil- dren, three of whom are living. Joseph C. was born November 7, 1857, in Shelby County, Ohio. He is a dentist, and lives in Minnesota. fra II. was born August 23. 1842, and William F. was born June 5, 1845, and lives in Thorntown, Indiana. He is a dentist. Mr. Cunger was married the second time March 22, 1849. His wife was Rachel Squier, who was born in Lemon Township, May 14, 1817. She died July 2. 1855, hav- ing had two children, of whom one died an infant. The other, Mary C., who was born September 12, 1852, is the wife of George C. Smith, and lives in Liberty Town- ship. Mr. Curryer was married for the third time to Rachel J. Carl, widow of Samuel Simpson, who was born in Butler County, August 22, 1826. They had six chil- dren, four of them living, and two of them dying in infancy. John .S. was born September 6, 1856; George W., July 10. 1859; Annie B., December 11, 1861; Charles V., January 13, 1865.
Daniel Curryer's father died leaving his business un- settled, and his widow lost considerable money by the bank breaking. She had to sell the original purchase, and bought sixty-two acres, on which she reared her fam- ily of six children, so that Mr. Curryer was obliged to
begin for himself pretty carly. He received ouly a connnon-school education. Ile learned the cabinet- maker's trade when he was about seventeen years of age, and stayed at it four years. In 1834 he began cabinet- making in Huntsville for himself, being thus engaged for two years. Then he removed to Shelby County, follow- ing the cabinet business till 1842. He purchased eighty acres while in Shelby County, and on his return to But- ler County bought a portion of his mother's farm, which he owned till her death. He then sold it and divided the proceeds among the heirs. He has traveled over a large portion of the United States, and has been to the Pacific slope. He has held the office of township trus- tee, and been school director for seventeen years. He is a member of the Masonic order. Mr. Curryer is a strong believer in spiritualism, although in early life he was a skeptic. His daughter, Mary C., in 1866, developed signs of a medium, which convinced him of its truth. She is one of the principal test mediums, and has given many extraordinary manifestations in Cincinnati, Hamil- ton, and other places. Other members of the family have also become mediums. His son Jolin, when twelve years old, was a medium, and also George W.
Abijah Cheeseman was born in Monmouth County, New Jersey, August 1, 1798, and was married in thet, State to Hannah Parker, daughter of William and Sarah (Shepherd) Parker, on February 5, 1821. She was born November 24, 1803. They had eight children. Sarah was born May 13, 1823, and is the wife of William Kyle, who lives in Lemon; Anna, born October 8, 1825, is the wife of Stacey Brant, and lives in Liberty; Lewis, born October 13, 1827; Elizabeth, born September 16, 1830, is the wife of Peter Shafor, and lives in Liberty ; Jobn, bern February 15, 1833, is married and lives in Lemon ; Lydia, born November 7, 1836. died March 31. 1849; William, born December 13, 1841, is married and lives in Lemon; Mary Jane, born February 18, 1845, wife of Samuel Mulford, lives in Lemon. Mr. Cheeseman left New Jersey in 1835, forming a party of his mother, brothers, and sisters, and his wife's mother, brothers, and sisters, fourteen in all, in four wagons, and came overland the whole way, taking four weeks on the road. They spent that Winter near Franklin, Warren County, Ohio. In the Spring of 1836 he parchased one hundred and two aeres in Liberty, where he has resided ever since. He had a farm of two hundred aeres in New Jersey which had belonged to his father, which he sold to divide among the other heirs, and with bis share, amounting to about two thousand dollars, settled in Lib- erty. He has been a school director for many years, and also township supervisor. ]' His father, William Cheese- man, was born September 24, 1753, in New Jersey, and was married April 11, 1781, to Lydia Dey, also born in that State, Septeuilx : 29, 1863, and had eight children : Lawrence, Margaret, Reubeu. Mary, Enoch, Sarah, Abi- jah, and Joseph, all now dead but Abijah. Enoch came
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to this eounty and returned to. New Jersey, and Sarah died here. William Cheeseman died in New Jersey, July 6, 1834, and his wife died in Liberty Township, November 5, 1844. He was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, and was promoted to lieutenant. His wife received a pension till her death. x
Andrew Clawson, the son of Cornelius Clawson, father of James, and grandfather of Stephen, was born in Mid- dlesex County, New Jersey, in 1766, and removed to this eounty in 1802. His wife was Mary Russell, who was born in Pennsylvania, in the year 1776. They were married in the latter State in 1794, and were the parents of nine children. James is still living in Fairfield Town- ship; Rachel died in Indiana; John died in Missouri; Joseph lives in Morgan Township; Elizabeth died in Lafayette, Indiana; Nancy lives in Liberty Township; Martha and Mary died in this eouuty; and George is living in Hamilton County. The first three were born in Pennsylvania, and the others in Butler County. When he first came here he settled in Madison Township. He died in Liberty Township in 1852, at the residence of his son James, at the age of eighty-six.
Almen Davis was born in Vermont, September 4, 1814, and was brought hither by his parents in 1816. They were Moody and Rebecca Morgan Davis. Almon Davis was married on the 7th of April 1841, in West- chester, to Maria Harr, daughter of Henry Harr, born .in Lancaster County in 1802, and Elizabeth Brewer, born in Maryland in 1819. They came to Butler County in 1826. Mre. Almon Davis's grandfather (John Brewer) was a captain in the War of 1812. Moody Davis was at Lake Champlain, but too late for the engagement, as he was delayed in returning by the illness of his mother. A brother of his was in the battle, being on Commodore McDonough's vessel.
Mr. Davis, in 1819, built the mill known as the John Allen mill, and in 1821 was given the use of it for two years for building it. Within that time he loaded a boat with flour, and started for New Orleans. It had only gone a small distance when it struck a suag in the middle of the river, about half-way between the mill and Ham- ilton. John Line and David Vinnedge were the pilots. After getting it off, they ran it near the bank, all jump- ing off except Moody Davis and Seneca Sweet. Going a little further, when nearly opposite Millikin's Island, now known as Campbell's Island, the craft struck a stoue in the river and broke one of the gunwales in two, filling with water to the edge. All control of it was lost. When it was within half a mile of the Hamilton mill- dam, Mr. Davis swam off, Mr. Sweet remaining. It went over the dam and they pulled it ashore with ropes. The flour was repacked in a warehouse, where J. Mor- gentindler's carriage shop now stands. Mr. Davis built a new boat, or rather finished one already begun, loaded it with new flour, and again set forth on his voyage. The four was sold in Natchez at four dollars per barrel, -
affording a good profit, as the four hundred bushels of wheat had been purchased from Nicholas Curtis for- twenty-five cents a bushel. This was all thrashed out with a fiail. Major William Elliott, of Westehester, now living, hauled this grain to the mill. Every barrel of the damaged flour had to be emptied, and was soid to a starch manufactory. After drying the barrels, the other flour was packed in them. While the refacking and reloading was going on, Joseph Hough boarded the men at his own house as an act of friendship and accommo- dation.
Joshua Elliott was the first member of this family that settled in Butler County. He was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, January 24, 1782, and was married in that State in September, 1807, to Betsy Hughes, who was born March 3, 1786, in the same county. They had eight children. Elijah was born in 1810, and died in 1877; William, in 1812, and died in 1848; Sarah, in 1814, and died in 1816; Arthur, March 2, 1817 ; Betsy Ann, in 1819, and died in 1878; Joshua, born in 1822, and died in 1826; John Taylor, March 26, 1835; and Daniel, in 1827, and died in 1858. Mr. Elliott was in- duced, by representations made by his brother, the Rev. Arthur Elliott, to move to Ohio, and about 1810 he and his family, consisting of a wife and one child, together with his father and mother and five brothers and three sisters, came out here, and settled in Liberty Township. near where the oll Spring Church has since stood. At this time there was not a stick of timber cut, so he began by clearing the land sufficiently to build a house, He first purchased about one hundred acres, finally ac- quiring upwards of five hundred acres in all in this county, and four hundred in Indiana. He was for many years a consistent member of the Methodist Church, and his house was always a stopping-place for the Methodist ministers. He brought ont with him a slave and a cop- per still. The slave, after serving out his time of two years, was freed, and went to Liberia. The still he never put up, being a strong tempe ance man.
Of his children Arthur is the only one living in the county, He was married January 15, 1840, to Emmme- line Van Gorden, who was a native of the township. She was born February 7, 1819. They had seven children: James Corwin, born in 1841, is married ; Joshua, born in 1843, died in 1846; Newton, born in 1847, died the same year; Benjamin F., born in 18.45, is married; Elmore T., born in 1852, is married; Arthur E., born in 1858, died in 1859, and Mollie, boru in 1861, died in 1867. Mr. Elliott has been a township trustee, and a member of the school board for several vers. He is a farmer and stock breeder, and cwas over four hundred acres, which his sons farm.
David Fleaner came to Ohio before any of the other members of the family. He was born in Frederick County, Maryland, 1769, and was there married to Susannah Brewer, riso of that county, where she was
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bern about 1772. They had nine children, four of whom are living. Daniel, Solomon, and Betsy are dead. Susan, the wife of Jonas P. Clark, resides in Indiana ; David is dead; Rudolph was born November 20, 1809; Polly is the widow of Peter Brewer; Cynthia is dead; and John is married and lives in Liberty Township.
Mr. Flenner left Maryland about 1801, and went overland to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and down the Ohio River in a flat-boat, to where Maysville now is, in Ken- tueky. . In 1803 he came to Ohio and settled in Liberty Township. He purchased three hundred and five acres of land and went to farming. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. In 1811 he and his wife started overland on horseback to Maryland, accomplishing the entire distance, seven hundred miles, in that manner, changing horses every other day. They bought a car- riage in Maryland, and drove back in that in 1812.
His father, Rudolph Flenner, also came to Butler County, bringing his wife and seven children, the re- mainder of his family. He settled in St. Clair Town- ship, where he purchased a large tract of land and gave each of his children a farm. They were a prominent and wealthy family in Maryland. He died about 1810, and his wife survived him about ten years.
Rudolph Flenner was born in Liberty Township, No- vember 20, 1809, and was married the first time in 1833, to Mary Miley, born in that township May 3, 1818, who died July 21, 1875. By her he had thirteen children, eight of whom are living. Harriet is the wife of William Scudder; Martha, of William M. Rooke; Einina, of . J. Davis; Mary, of Samuel Thompson. Dustin is married ; Laura is the wife of Whittemore Hughes; Marion is married, and David is single at home. Mr. Flenner was married the second time on the 3d of May, 1877. His wife was Ada Meighan, who was born in Warren County, January 21, 1837. He has been a member of the school board for sixteen years, township supervisor, captain of the first company, first cavalry squadron, first brigade, State militia, under Governor Vance. His commission was dated November 10, 1837. He is a member of the Methodist Church, and has held the office of steward for forty years. He is also a class leader.
Robert Fitzgerald was born in Ireland, December 14, 1770, aud married Letitia Roby, born in Virginia, Octo- ber 9, 1772. They had six children, three now being alive. Sarah was born May 21, 1803, and is the widow of Ledstone Roby; Nancy was born October 22, 1809, and is the widow of William Dorn; Prior, born Decent- ber 22, 1810; William, born August 26, 1801 ; Samuel, June 13, 1807; and Edward, February 26, 1812. The last three are dead. . Prior Fitzgerald was born Derem- ber 22, 1810, in Clermont County. and was married April 7, 1822, to Catherine Van Scoyk, born in Lemon Township, November 21, 1822. They had seven chil- dren, of whom five are now living. Taylor W. was born ! it for several years, and about 1846 he parchased thirty-
May 8, 1843; Emily, February 1, 1846; Bruce, February 3, 1848 ; Charles. March 13, 1858; and Clement L. Val- landigham, June 9, 1863. Mr. Fitzgerald came to But- ler County with his father, and when he was fourteen years old he commenced to earn his own living, working by the month on a farm for ten or twelve years. He then farnied on shares and traded stock until he had accumulated some capital, and in 1840 be purchased eighty-nine acres in Liberty Township. He now owns about one hundred and ten acres in the county, and con- siderable personal property.
Peter L. Gorsuch, son of Thomas Gorsuch, was born in Liberty Township, March 23, 1841, and was married February 4, 1864, to Hannah Williamson, daughter of David Williamson, who was born April 30, 1842. He had seven children. Mary Hattie was born May 30, 1865; Lerna Loretta, September 15, 1867; Idla Myrtle, October 5, 1869; Ellison Lee, January 3, 1873; Ethel Laura, April 11, 1876; Bertha Jane, May 1, 1878, and one unnamed, January 17, 1881. He worked his first year after he was twenty-one for his father for $100, and that was his first start. He then rented twenty aeres, and farmed, planting corn, and when he had time worked by the day. In the Winter he eut cord-wood. He continued to rent different farms, among others his father's, till the Spring of 1872. In that year he pur- chased ninety-five acres of George Smith, part of the old Anderson farm, paying 88,217 for it. There is another deed for the same farm now in bis possession, which shows when it sold for only $250. Mr. Gorsuch is a self- made man. He contributes much to the support of the churches in his neighborhood. He gave largely to the one in Bethany, and is a trustee of the Presbyterian Church of that place. He now owns 153 acres, and considerable personal property. He was drafted three times during the war, and sent a substitute. He is a Democrat.
Thomas Gorsuch was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, October 14, 1816, and was married in Penn- sylvania, August 18, 1836, to Mary Lesourd, also of Baltimore County. She was born January 17, 1814, and had ten children. Nicholas was born July 12, 1837; Susannah, June 27, 1839; Peter L., March 23, 1841; Sarah A., January 11, 1843; Elisha, June 1, 1846; Edmund, July 18. 1847; Charles W., March 6, 1849; Mary E., December 20, 1850; Thomas B., September 50, 1853; Rebecca, August 4, 1855. Nicholas, Susmu- nah, Elisha, Edmund, and Rebecca are dead. Sarah 1. is the wife of William G. Lesourd, and Mary E. is the wife of Alfred Lowe. Mr. Gorsuch came to Ohio it 1836, settling on Slade's farm, in Liberty Township. Ile brought some capital, and in 1839 began business with his wife's unele, Benjamin Lesourd, at Lesoards- ville, where he remained about eighteen months, losing all his money. He then rented a farm apsi tilled
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six aeres. From that he has steadily improved, until he now owns two hundred and ten acres, part in Butler and part in Warren Counties. He has considerable per- sonal property, and two town lots in Bethany. He has held the office of township treasurer for six years. He was elected in 1873 and took the office in 1874, remain- ing in till 1880. He has been a member of the school board for ten years. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which he joined while a boy in Maryland. He is a Democrat, and cast his first vote for General Jackson.
Samuel and Sarah Gregory were born in Virginia. They had ten children. James, John, William, and Samuel are dead; Elizabeth married Josiah Carr; Martha married William Hartley; Mary married Fergus Mitchell; Sarah married Willinu MeClure; Charlotte married Lewis Clarkson; and Annie married William Kincaid. Mr. Gregory came to Ohio about the same time as the Wood- mansee family, and purchased a section of land. Samuel Gregory, son of the above, was born in Liberty Town- ship, September 20, 1813. He was married Deeend;er 25, 1834, to Dolly Torbett, born November 29, 1812, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. They had seven children. Sarah J. was born August 20, 1835, and is the widow of Joshua Chambers; Joseph, born June 30, 1837, is mar- ried, and lives in Texas; Thomas, born May 10, 1839; Catherine, born. April 24, 1841, is dead; Elizabeth_A., born February 5, 1843, is the wife of Samuel H. Smith, and lives in Cincinnati; George W. was born February 11, 1845. Mr. Gregory received one hundred and fifty- two acres of land from his father, and spent his time im- proving it. He was one of the prominent citizens of Liberty Township. He died June 28, 1848, leaving a widow and six children.
Charles Gorsuch was born in Baltimore County, Maryland, June 13, 1789. He was married for the first time in that State, and had five children. He was ma ried again on the 24th of December, 1840, to Han- nah Gorsuch, born in Baltimore, Maryland, April 1, 1799. They had one child. Elisha was born September 26, 1832, and died February 16, 1874. He was married March 29, 1855, to Sarah F. Stubler, a native of Mary- Jand, where she was born August 6, 1831. He had four children. Raper D. was born May 1, 1856, and Edgar B. was a twin with him, Charles W. was born August 3, 1867, and Ella, March 5, 1861. Me. Gor- such is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, holding the offices of steward, trustee, and superintendent of the Sunday-school. His widow lives in Liberty Township.
John Griffis was born in Liberty Township April 22, 1804, and married first, December 27, 1827, Anna Smalley, born in Liberty Township, July 6, 1811, who died September 17, 1832, leaving one child, Lovina, bora May 18, 1829, who died January 22, 1866. He married second, May 30, 1833, Naney Clawson, born i
in Madison Township, April 14, 1808. They had six children. Sarah Ann was born October 18, 1934; Martin and Marcus were born December 22, 1836; Milton, born July 30, 1839, is married, and lives in Liberty Township; David, born August 28, 1841; and Martha, born January 26, 1844, the wife of Robert Louthan, who lives in Liberty Township. Only the latter and Milton are now living. Mr. Griffis was a member of the Baptist Church. He died July 26, 1855, in Liberty Township. Milton Griffis, son of the above, was born July 30, 1839, and married December 22, 1863, to Eliza Sheard, daughter of Elisha Sheard and Eliza (Booth) Sheard, who was born in Hanover Town- ship, May 22, 1842. They have three children. George W. was born October 17, 1864; Mary E. was born July 28, 1867, and Emma A. was born March 26, 1864. He is a farmer, and owns and farms 136 acres, inherited from his father.
John Harper, the ancestor of the Harper family in Liberty Township, was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, November 1, 1786, and was married three times. Mary Rees, his first wife, was born in West- moreland County, November 8, 1785, and died about 1841, in Liberty. She had seven children. James was born January 14, 1807, in Liberty Township. where he still lives; Elizabeth was born February 16, 1809; David, February 16, 1812; William, June 5, 1814; Mary, May 10, 1817; Hannah, November 5, 1819: Ruth, August 5, 1825. Hannah is living, but the others are dead. His second marriage was to Hannah Bice, who was born in Ohio. She had one child, which is dead. In his third marriage he was united to Milly Brundridge. He came to Ohio in 1810 and settled in Liberty Township. About 1825 he purchased forty-seven acres, previous to which he had worked out and rented. He was a self-made man, and had nothing when he came here, but acquired considerable property in the course of time. He was drafted for the War of 1812, but was prevented from going by sickness. His first wife's father was a soldier of the Revolution and served in all the war. Mr. Harper was a member of the Campbellite denomina- tion, and the church was built on his farm. He was one of its liberal supporters. He died about 1861, in Wayne Township. His son, James, was born January 14. 1807, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and was mar- ried March 10, 1830, to Hannah Moore, born iu Butler County, November 14, 1805, and died in 1843, in Lil- erty, leaving no children. He then married, December 11, 1844, Ruth Peake, who was born in this county. March 19, 1814. She died January 23, 1873, having had one child, Elizabeth Ann, who was born January 3. 1848. She is the wife of Clinton Clawson, who lives iu Liberty Township. Mr. Harper has held! the office of township trustee, supervisor, and constable. He was elected a justice of the peace, but would not accept the position. In politics he is a Democrat.
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Joshua E. Hughes, retired tarmer. was born in Lib- erty Township, ou the 6th of January, 1823. He is the youngest child of Elijah Hughes and Sarah Much- ner, the former of whom was born in Maryland, No- vember 4, 1777, and the latter May 5, 1780. They were married in Maryland about 1800, and had as. children Eliza, born October 9, 1803; Daniel, June 27, 1805; Micajah, January 25, 1807 : James, June 3, 1808, dying when small; Mary, February 18, 1810; Elijah, March 15, 1812, died when little; Christopher, Deceni- ber 12, 1813; Rachel, October 9, 1815; Elizabeth, June 3, 1817 ; Philip, October 19, 1820, and Joshua. The latter was married to Mary Ann Legg, in Decein- ber, 1848, and has two children. Frank M. was born May 22, 1849, and Charles L., born May 23, 1851. Mrs. Hughes was born May 18, 1828. Frank was married to Christiana Swearingen, who died, and then he married Hannah Shafor, the daughter of Peter Shafor. He had two children by his first wife, Mary Mabel, and the other is dead. Charles married Florence Deneen, and has one child, Lola May. Mr. Hughes has always lived in this neighborhood; has been a super- visor for fifteen years, and school director. Mr. Hughes's father was of Welsh descent, and his mother of German. He subscribed liberally during the war for the relief of those who had been drafted, and none went from the township who did not desire to.
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