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LONG, ABRAHAM, farmer ; his father, John Long, was born in Maryland, near Hagerstown, Jan. 8, 1780, and was married to Susan Leedy, in Bedford Co., Penn., in 1802. He came to Ohio in 1816, and settled in Knox Co. near Ankneytown, where he spent his life. He was the father of twenty-one children, ten boys and eleven girls, three of whom died when young. Abra- ham was born in Bedford Co., Penn., June 9, 1805, and came with his parents to Knox Co., and grew up at the ax-handle and the grubbing hoe. He was married June 14, 1827, to Elizabeth Jamison, who was born Oct. 23, 1807 ; she had one son named William, born Sept. 8, 1828, and died May 23, 1830; she died Sept. 28, 1828. On Nov. 3, 1831, he was married to Catharine Teeter, who was born in Bedford Co., Penn., Aug. 9, 1813 ; they lived in Knox Co. till 1839, when he moved on the southeast quarter of Sec. 36, Jefferson Township, which has since been his home. Children - Elizabeth, born Sept. 19, 1832; Jacob, March 9, 1834; Margaret, Jan. 23, 1836 ; Malinda, March 7. 1838; George W., Nov. 28, 1839; Jackson, June 9, 1842; Nancy, Dec. 2, 1844; Edward, April 22, 1847; John, July 1, 1849; Leah C., May 14, 1852. Elizabeth died Dec. 8, 1834 ; Nancy, June 18, 1849 ; Margaret, in July, 1875. Jacob was first married to Mahala Hammond ; and his second wife was Mary Mishey. Margaret married Isaac Shan- abarger ; Malinda, Jacob Stickler; George, Mary Hal- ferdy ; Jackson, Sarah Hissong; Edward, Mary Mc- Clelland ; John, Mary Fisher ; Leah, John Swank. Mr. Long and wife have been worthy members of the Church of Christian Brethren many years, and are most estimable citizens.
LONG, SAMUEL, deceased ; was a son of George Long and Barbara Booth. He was married to Eliza Mckinney ; her maiden name was Bowersox, being a daughter of Jacob Bowersox and Nancy Johnston, and was born in Adams Co., Penn., April 22. 1815. Five children were born to them : Thomas, born March 14, 1851; Lovina, May 21, 1852; James, Sept. 27, 1853 ; Mary Catharine, Dec. 24, 1856 ; Sarah Ann, Nov. 17, 1859. Thomas was married to Emma Shaffer, in April, 1872, who was born Feb. 10, 1852; she had one child, Orion, born Aug. 1, 1874, and died Aug. 9, 1875.
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James was married to Mary Pheil, Oct. 25, 1874; she was born Jan. 5, 1856. Children-Honorah was born Jan. 21, 1875; Bertha Bell, Nov. 11, 1877. Thomas and James Long reside on a part of Secs. 19 and 20, and follow farming and thrashing, the latter pursuit they commenced in 1878.
LONG, DAVID, deceased. His father, George Long, resided within thirty miles of Baltimore, Md., where the subject of this sketch was probably born ; he was one of a family of six children, named, respectively, Samuel, Lydia, Hannah, David, Matilda and Sarah. Soon after coming to Jefferson Township, he was married to Cath- rine Sowers, who was born in Richland Co .; she be- came the mother of eight children-Ezra, William H., Samuel, John W., Sarah, Jane, Jeremiah and Anna Mary. He was married last to Fanny Eller, and to them were born the following children : Joseph, born Aug. 17, 1853; Jacob, Sept. 27, 1854; Lorenzo, July 3, 1856 : Matilda, May 19, 1858; Ellen, Feb. 12, 1861. Mr. Long died Aug. 15, 1862, aged 48 years 6 months and 27 days ; his first wife died Aug. 2, 1848, aged 28 years 9 months and 8 days; his last wife died about six years after he died. Mr. Long's records are lost, and the births of his first children are not all on record. He followed farming as his main occupation in life.
McMAHON, WILLIAM T., physician ; was born in Knox Co. Sept. 19, 1823, and was brought up on a farm; at the age of 18 years, he commenced to go to school at Gambier ; when 20, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Landecker; after remaining with him three years, he commenced practice, having his residence in Ankneytown, Knox Co .; this was in 1846 ; the next year, he located at Millwood, where he re- mained thirty years; in 1875-76, he took a course of lectures in the Ohio Medical College, of Columbus, and came to Bellville in 1876; he practices the eclectic system. Mr. McMahon is a member of the Univer- salist Church, the Sons of Temperance and Odd Fellows. His parents came from Maryland to Knox Co., about 1814. He was married, Oct. 22, 1845, to Mary E. Welker.
McDONALD, JOSEPH Z., was born in Berlin Town- ship, Knox Co., Oct. 4, 1848, and is a son of Joseph and Mary (Zink) McDonald ; he was brought up a farmer, and has always followed it. He was married to Ruth S. Bowman, who was born in Chesterville, Ohio, April 16, 1841 ; their first child died in infancy ; Morris B. was born July 7, 1872, and died Feb. 19, 1874 ; Verda A. was born Dec. 7, 1874. They are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. McDonald went in the war with the 12Ist O. V. I., and was in the battles of Mission Ridge, Chickamauga, Perryville, Ky., in others, and in the march to Atlanta. Mrs. Bowman's father, Jacob Bowman, was born in Stark Co., Ohio, Jan. 16, 1813, and, at the age of 4 years, moved with his father to Mansfield ; he followed car- pentering till 1861, when he went to farming. He was married, Feb. 27, 1840, to Amanda M. Woodward, who was born in New York City Dec. 2, 1818, and came to Richland Co. in 1820; they commenced housekeeping in Chesterville ; they moved to Bellville in 1876; chil- dren-Ruth S .; Elizabeth, born Dec. 14, 1843; Horace
W., born July I, 1846; Elizabeth died at the age of 9 months, and Horace at the age of 10 months.
MEASEL, PETER, nurseryman ; is located npon the declivity, a few steps north of Bellville, where he has resided since 1860, and given his attention to growing nursery stock ; he makes no pretensions of excellency in his avocation, but it is a well-known truth that the trees he sells are most hardy, and always bear the fruit called for on the label. Nicholas Measel, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Frederick Co., Md., and was married to Mary Ann Hoover; to them nine children were born, namely : Elizabeth, Jacob, Lyda, Margaret, Peter, Joshua, John, Mary and Susan. The second, fourth, seventh and ninth are dead. Peter Measel was born in Frederick Co., Md., May 27, 1820; at the age of 13 years, he moved with his parents to Wayne Co., Ohio, where he remained until 1833; in December of this year, he removed to Richland Co .: in 1846, he commenced coopering, at which he worked till 1857, living in Worthington Township; in the spring of 1857, he turned his attention to the care of a nursery, and has continued at it since. He entered the connubial relation with Ann Long June 4, 1843; she was born in Wayne Co., Ohio, Jan. 18, 1825 or 1826. Mr. Measel and wife are members of the Disciple Church.
MASTERS, MARGARET, MRS., daughter of Henry Swank, was born in Jefferson Township Feb. 28, 1818; in early life she received such an education as the sub- scription and district schools of that time afforded, and remained at home with her parents until her marriage with Mr. Masters, which occurred March 5, 1839 ; they commenced life in Palmyra, in Knox Co., Ohio, where they resided about two years, and then moved to Mount Vernon, where they lived about seven years ; then they came to Bellville, and shortly after their arrival Mr. Masters went to California, where he remained until his death, Feb. 6, 1879. Mrs. Masters remained in Bellville until the year 1869, when she went to Califor- nia to her husband, but, in consequence of her health, she returned to Bellville the following year, and took care of her father until his death. They had a family of five children, one of whom has deceased; the sur- viving ones are all married, and live in California.
MONTIS, GEORGE, was born in York Co., Penn., April 5, 1823; he came to Jefferson Township in 1823; his father's name was Jacob Montis, who was married to Nancy Steel; the subject of this sketch was brought up on a farm, which avocation he still pursues. He was married, Dec. 5, 1844, to Rosan McGarvey, a daughter of Patrick McGarvey and Elizabeth Buter- baugh, and she was born Jan. 10, 1818; children- Sylvester A., born Jan. 3, 1847 ; John William, Jan, 22, 1849; Mary Elizabeth, June 22, 1852; Martha Jane, July 28, 1864 ; the two daughters are deceased ; Sylvester married Ellen Drew, a daughter of Joseph Drew, and, in 1868, moved to Iowa, where he now. resides.
MOODY, ISRAEL K., dealer in boots and shoes : he was born in Jefferson Township and lived in Bellville the greater part of his life; his grandfather, John Moody, came to Bellville in a very early day, and was one of the best citizens that ever lived in Jefferson
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Township, and was a minister in the Church of Disci- ples. The subject of this sketch was born Feb. 15, 1846, and was a son of Miller Moody. In 1861, he enlisted and went to the front with the 59th N. Y. V. I., and remained in the service three years ; in 1864, he re-enlisted and went in the 178th O. V. I., and served to the end of the war. Ile went to St. Joe, Mo., in September, 1865, and secured a position as a clerk in a wholesale and retail clothing establishment ; from there he went to Allegheny City, Penn., in 1867, and learned telegraphy, and followed it at the outer depot till 1870, when he moved to Gallitzin, a place in the State, where he ran trains through the tunnel at that place by telegraph ; he went to Terre Haute, Ind., in April, 1872, and surveyed the Middleberry Division of the C. & T. H. R. R. ; he was called home in March, 1873, by the death of his mother, and remained, en- gaging in the livery business, till October, 1874 ; he opened a shoe store in Bellville in March, 1875, and did an extensive business till April, 1880, when he moved to Upper Sandusky and became its leading busi- ness man in this line of trade. Mr. Moody has main- tained a reputation for honesty and veracity throughout his business career. He was the leading spirit of the Bellville Cornet Band during his stay in the village. He was married to Miss Regina H. Christy.
NIMAN, JAMES. He was born in Lancaster Co., Penn., and was brought up near Harrisburg, Penn .; he remained there till the spring of 1837, when he came to Ohio ; he learned the carpenter trade in the East ; at the age of 28 years, he was called to the min- istry in the United Brethren Church ; when 30 years old, he was ordained, and traveled in Maryland and Virginia until he left for Ohio ; he filled the position of a local preacher for a number of years since residing in Jefferson Township. He settled on a part of Sec. 17; commenced in the woods, and cleared the farm on which he now resides ; he improved his farm, building a house in 1853 and a barn in 1852. Mr. Niman was born March 7, 1801. His companion, Catherine Shive- ly, was born May 20, 1809; they were married Sept. 29, 1833, and had four children-Mary Aun, born June 12, 1836; George S., June 7, 1838; Leander J., March 5, 1841; Sarah C., July 7, 1846; deaths- Mary died Oct. 12, 1854; George, Aug. 4, 1870, and the mother, Aug. 27, 1875. His son Leander was in the war of the rebellion ; he went to the army first in the three-months service, then with the 102d O. V. 1. Leander was married to Sarah C. Rhodes, daughter of Samuel Rhodes, Nov. 26, 1868; she was born March 27, 1848; their children are Cora Viola, born Feb. 18, 1873, and Ellsworth, July 2, 1878. Father Niman died May 7, 1880.
OLDFIELD, JONATHAN (deceased) ; he was one of the first white settlers of Jefferson Township ; he came with James McClure, in 1808, and assisted in building the first cabin in the township. He was born in Washington Co., N. Y., June 7, 1788, and emigrated with his parents to Ross Co., Ohio, in 1803 ; the fam- ily, a few years later, moved to Pickaway Co. He was married to Elizabeth McClure Feb. 11, 1812, by Esquire Coffinbury, which was the first marriage in the county with its present boundaries. Births : Mary, born Sept. 5, 1814; James, July 6, 1816 ; Hugh, Sept.
26, 1818; Rebecca, Oct. 8, 1820; William, Aug. 8, 1822. Mother Oldfield died Aug. 4, 1824, and Mr. Oldfield married'Nancy Fiddler Oct. 14, 1824. Births : Nathan, born March 11, 1827; Noah, Jan. 2, 1829 ; John, June 15, 1830; Mary Jane, March 5, 1832 ; Ab- ner, Dec. 5, 1834. His father, William Oldfield, was born in 1750.
OLDFIELD, RICHARD (deceased) ; born in Orange Co., N. Y., May 14, 1801; came with his parents in 1803, and first to Richland Co., in 1812, and helped to pull corn to feed the Greentown Indians. His wife, Elmina Phelps, was born in Grafton Co., N. H., and came to Richland Co. Aug. 7, 1815; they were married Dec. 21, 1824, and, in three days after, moved on a farm two and one-half miles southeast of Bellville, where he lived until his death, Nov, 11, 1872. When they moved, they carried all their goods in their arms and drove the cow; their children are David P., born Sept. 23, 1825; Anna, Jan. 25, 1827 ; Matilda, Sept. 24, 1828 ; James F., June 4, 1830; Reuben, June 27, 1832; Cordelia, April 17, 1834; Lovina, March 5, 1836, died May 2, 1836; Elizabeth, July 26, 1837 ; Martha, April 26, 1839; William, June 21, 1841; Mary and Silas, May 23, 1844. William died in the service at Rome, Ga .; Silas was also in the service.
OLDFIELD, ABNER, farmer ; owns the northwest quarter of Sec. 22; he was born in Jefferson Town- ship, and was brought up on a farm. In 1857, he fol- lowed threshing, in connection with farming, which he followed about six years. After marriage, he lived a few years in Jefferson Township, and then went to Morrow Co .; he remained about two years, and then returned to Jefferson ; he moved on the place he now owns in 1874. Mr. Oldfield was born Dec. 5, 1834. Ann Tinkey was born Nov. 17, 1831. They were mar- ried Aug. 28, 1855. Births: Mary Elizabeth, born June 16, 1856; George, Sept. 24, 1860; Susie V., Oct. 23, 1869. George died July 31, 1879. He united with the Presbyterian Church about eight months before he was called away ; he was an industrious and dutiful sou, and exemplary in character. Mr. Oldfield has taken an active part in Christian works, and has superintended Sabbath schools many terms. He united with the church before marriage, and his wife did also. Mr. Oldfield is a charter member of the Jefferson Grange.
RIDDLE, MARGARET, MRS., daughter of Abram and Ann Grosser; Mr. and Mrs. Grosser were natives of Frederick Co., Md., and emigrated to Bellville in October, 1827, and occupied a cabin that stood on the lot now occupied by the residence of John Zent ; they had a family of three children-Henry, Margaret and Zillman ; they occupied the cabin home for about one year, when they bought a lot and built a more comfort- able abode ; Mr. Grosser 'was a carpenter by trade, and, while engaged in getting out timber for a res- idence for Dr. Beach, he was struck by a limb of a falling tree and instantly killed, Dec. 24, 1830. Marga- ret was born April 18, 1827, and was married to James Riddle April 21, 1861; Mr. Riddle was among the first to respond to the call for volunteers to suppress the rebellion, and enlisted in Co. I, 16th O. V. I., in the three-months service, and was commissioned 2d Lieuten- ant ; when his term of service expired, he returned
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home, but his patriotic spirit would not allow him to long remain ; he enlisted in the three-years service on the 7th of August, 1862, in Co. E, 102/1 O. V. I., and was commissioned Ist Lieutenant of his company, and served in that capacity until his death, Sept. 27, 1863 ; he was killed by falling from a train that was trans- porting troops from Nashville to Murfreesboro, and is interred in the National Cemetery at Murfreesboro. Mrs. Riddle resides with her mother, who is in her 77th year. Henry Grosser is engaged in the grocery business in Bellville. Her brother, Zillman Grosser, died during the Mexican war, at Puebla, Sept. 3, 1847 ; he was a member of Capt. Weaver's company, 16th O. V. I., commanded by Col. Sutton.
ROBINSON, JOHN, deceased ; was born Feb. 1, 1782, in Ireland, and came across the ocean with his parents when 5 years of age, and they settled in Westmoreland Co., Penn. He was married in this county, to Marga- ret Nelson, who was also born in Ireland. In 1809, the family removed to Mercer Co., Ohio, and in the fall of 1815, to the southwest quarter of Sec. II, Jeffer- son Township; he entered three quarter-sections for himself and brothers. The following children were born to his first wife : James, John, Alexander, Will- iam, Thomas, Nancy, Ester, Margaret and Hamilton ; of whom James, Thomas, Nancy, Ester and Margaret are dead. He was married to Jane Stewart after the death of his first wife, and four children were born to her-Susannah, Ellen, Samuel and Sarah; the first and third are dead. Father Robinson was " the bear- hunter" of his day and locality.
ROBINSON, WILLIAM, farmer, son of John Robin- son, was born in Westmoreland Co., Penn., Oct. 7, 1807. He was married, Dec. 17, 1835, to Mariah Lafferty, a daughter of John Lafferty. She was born in Harrison Co., Ohio, May 13, 1817. They resided with his father one year after marriage, then three years on a part of Sec. 10, after which they moved on the southeast quar- ter of Sec. 22, where they yet reside. Mr. Robinson and wife are members of the United Presbyterian Church. They have one child, Calvin, who was born Jan. 25, 1837. He united in matrimony with Elizabeth Leedy, Samuel Leedy's daughter, Jan. 19, 1865. She was born in Jefferson Township, Aug. 7, 1843. He commenced to keep house near where he now resides, which is one and a half miles south of Bellville. He was a soldier in the 100-day service, and held the office of corporal. He has been Township Trustee two terms. Their children are William, born Jan. 3, 1866; Mar- garet, Oct. 20, 1867; Mary, Aug. 7, 1869 ; John, July 8, 1872; Frederick, Nov. 24, 1879.
RUMMEL, DAVID J., was born in Frederick Co., Md., Aug. 19, 1817; he and two of his brothers set- tled in Seneca Co., Ohio, near Tiffin, and engaged in clearing land; some time afterward, he commenced milling as an apprentice, and worked at it a few years in Seneca, and awhile in Crawford Co. On Sept. 8, 1840, he entered into matrimonial relations with Mary Z. Klise, who was also a native of Frederick Co., Md., and was born Feb. 5, 1822; Mr. Rummel also engaged in millwrighting more or less before marriage, and again engaged at it after, doing an extensive business in erecting mills in Seneca and Crawford Cos .; the miasmatic air of these counties at last began to tell on
his health, and to seek a more healthy locality, he came to Richland Co. and located near Independence in 1850; he soon recovered his health, and built mills in this and Seneca Cos .; in 1852, he erected a resi- dence about a mile east of Independence, and the next year built a mill ; in March, 1854, it was ready to run, and for more than a decade he did an extensive busi- ness in custom work and shipping flour; about the year 1868, the mill property was sold, and since then he gave his attention more to agriculture; during the year 1879, he resided in Bellville, and in the fall he again purchased the favorite mill. Mr. Rummel's children are Ann Amanda, born June 12, 1841; Albert Josiah, Jan. 5, 1843; Orlandus B., Aug. 18, 1845; Mary Elizabeth, Oct. 24, 1847; Luella Z., Feb. 29, 1864. The parents united with the Universalist Church of Bellville, about the year 1851, and since then have taken an active interest in the affairs of the society.
RUMMEL, O. B., dealer in hardware, Bellville ; was born in Tiffin, Ohio; he commenced to work in his father's flouring-mill while growing up; in 1867, he commenced a business course in the Poughkeepsie Col- lege, of New York ; the next year, he took the degree of Master of Accounts; he then traveled some time looking for a mill, and not finding one that was satis- factory, he returned home and engaged in operating his father's mill. In September, 1871, he purchased the hardware store then operated by A. J. Markey, and has continued at this business till the present ; Mr. Rummel was born Aug. 18, 1845, and was married Nov. 24, 1867, to Mary E. Garber; their children are Nellie E., born Oct. 25, 1868; Zomara, Aug. 2, 1874; and a daughter, Sept. 2, 1879.
SHAFFER, BENJAMIN, carpenter and farmer ; he was a son of George Shaffer and Catharine Fissel, and was born in Perry Township, Richland Co .; he was brought up on a farm ; at the age of 17, he commenced to work at the carpenter trade, which he made his exclusive occupation until 1863; he then enlisted, and went to the Army of the Potomac; since his return, his attention has principally been given to agriculture. During his carpentry, he erected upward of sixty houses and forty-five barns, besides numerous smaller buildings. Mr. Shaffer was born May 2, 1825. He was first married, July 2, 1846, to Julia Ann Albaugh, who was a daughter of William Albaugh, and was born Jan. 4, 1823; children-Franklin, born April 1, 1849; Delphine, May 3, 1854; Mrs. Shaffer died in Septem- ber, 1854; he then married Sarah Spayd, a daughter of Henry Spayd ; Delphine married Francis Borden ; Franklin married Frances Tidd, a daughter of George Tidd and Margaret Armstrong, and she was born July 22, 1855; they were married Dec. 10, 1871 ; children -Verda, born Feb. 10, 1872; Charles, July 9, 1874 ; Margaret, April 11, 1876. Mr. Shaffer lives near his father's residence, on a part of Sec. 31.
SHAFFER, BENJAMIN, carpenter and joiner ; he commenced to work at carpentering when 14 years old, and has given his attention to it almost wholly since ; for several years, he has been doing an extensive work in the erection of houses and barns, and at times employed eight or ten hands; during the war, he was a teamster a short time in the Cumberland Army. Mr.
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Shaffer was born in Palmyra, Knox Co., Ohio, Dec. 4, 1845, and, on Feb. 12, 1865, he was married to Albina Files, who was born Dec. 9, 1844, and was the daugh- ter of Nathan Files, who was born July 12, 1796, and, in 1835, settled in Ohio ; he was married to Rebecca Walker, and had nine children, five sons and four daughters ; he died in August, 1878 ; after marriage, Mr. Shaffer lived three years in Jefferson Township first; then in Perry four years, then in Jefferson again ; his children are Oscar Elmer, born May 19, 1866 : Ettie Senora, May 12, 1873; Nettie Olive, Sept. 16, 1876; Wealthy, July 13, 1879. Mr. Shaffer and wife are members of the Disciple Church.
SHAFFER, MARGARET ; she resides on a part of Sec. 18 : she was a daughter of Samuel lIoke and Eliza- beth Weast ; her father died in Pennsylvania, and she came to Jefferson Township with her mother in 1830. James Shaffer, her husband, was a son of George Shaffer and Catharine Fissel. After marriage, they resided two years in Perry Township, and then moved on the place where Mrs. Shaffer now lives. Mr. Shaffer went to the war in the 102d O. V. I. and never returned ; he left home in September, 1862, and, contracting a dis- ease, was sent to Louisville, Ky., and from there to New Albany, Ind., where he died ; he was born in March, 1821. Margaret Hoke was born June 3, 1826. They were married Nov. 30, 1843 ; children-a son was born Jan. 22, 1845; Louisa, March 17, 1847 ; Emanuel, Aug. 13, 1849; Emma, Feb. 10, 1852 : a son, Nov. 28, 1853; Franklin, Oct. 25, 1854; Mary, July 12, 1857; a son, in June, 1859; William, Aug. 12, 1860; James Sher- man, April 19, 1863 ; Mary died when about 4 years old ; Emma, Aug. 9, 1875; the father, Nov. 15, 1862 Franklin was married, Nov. 11, 1875, to Charlotte Hadesah Pheil, daughter of Abraham Pheil, and was born in Franklin Co., Penn .; she was born Sept. 12, 1857 ; she has one child-Arthur Beach S. Emma was married to Thomas Long; Louisa married Jeremiah Long May 2, 1865; he was born Oct 15, 1846; their child, Florence C., was born Dec. 27, 1866. James and Margaret Shaffer were members of the United Brethren Church.
SHAFER, ADAM, house painter ; his father, Adam Shafer, came to Jefferson Township in 1816, where he was born and brought up a farmer, which occupation he followed until 1870, when he turned his attention to painting. He formed matrimonial relations with Mar- garet Miller, daughter of John Miller, and she was born in Washington Co., Md., and came to Richland Co. in 1834. Mr. Shafer has made his home in Jeffer- son Township since marriage, with the exception of six months that he resided in Lexington, Ohio; he was born April 20, 1828; Mrs. Shafer was born Feb. 28, 1830; they were married Nov. 7, 1850; children- Henrietta was born Jan. 18, 1853 ; Saralı, Feb. 4, 1855; Candace B., Sept. 28, 1857 ; Calvin D., Nov. 17, 1859 ; Carson M., Jan. 21, 1862; Horace M., July 26, 1864. Henrietta was married to J. D. Ranson and lives in Le Sueur Co., Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Shafer are members of the Lutheran Church.
SCHROEDER, DANIEL, farmer, and has worked at chair-making and painting; was born in Frederick- town, Knox Co., Ohio, where he grew up to manhood ; he commenced making chairs when about 14 years of
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