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WILLIAM LYBARGER
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DR. ELI P. LESLIE
is a descendant of Revolutionary stock, his grandfather, John Leslie, having been a soldier of the patriot army under General Washington, and lived to the extraordinary age of 107 years. His father, Elisha Leslie, served as a soldier in the war of 1812 Dr. lashe was born in Champaign County. Ohio, in 1817, and settled in this county in the year 1×10. He commeneed rea ling medicine in Columbiana County, an.l afterwards graduated at the Starling Medical College at Columbus in 1×53. From that time be practised medicine continuously up to the year 1878, when the Board of County Commissioners appointed him Superintendent of the Infirmary of Van Wert County, which position he now fills. In Isti he was married. in Hancock County, to Hannah R. Marshall, who was born in Trumbull County in 1820, by whom he has had seven children, as follows: Benjamin F .. Albert J., William B., Melissa E. J. A., Joseph C., Eliza E., and Clement M.
FRANCIS T. GILLILAND
was born in the town of Van Wert. August 31, 1841. He was the oldest son of Robert Gilliland and he lived with his father in town until he was thirteen years of age. His father having died in 1$53, his first adven- ture for himself was as a clerk in a store at Delphos, where he remained about one year, then went to live with his unele until he was about anne- teen years of age, when he went to Hilinois and remained three years. He returned and entered the army in Company B, 1924 Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the winter of 1865, and remained till the close of the war. In the spring of 1866 he married Mary E. Tombaugh, by whom he had four children. Mrs. Gilliland died September 27. 1880, of diphtheria. After Mr. Gilliland was married he settled ou his farm, then in the woods, where he has remained until the present time.
In 1878 he was elected County Commissioner for three years.
JOHN COLLINS
was born in Hocking County, Ohio, in 1824. He married Sophia Ste- belton. March 9, 1848, and moved to this county in the spring of 1852, and settled on forty acres of land in seetion 30. Ridre Township. on which there were but three acres cleared. He has since added by par- chase one hundred acres of land, and with the exception of the three acres named, has cleared off and put the whole tract under a fine state of cultivation. He has erected a commodious brick dwelling, and has the farm most all underdrained. Though he was not one of the first settlers there are few farms in the county better improved, which has been accomplished by his own labor, going to show what industry will realize when directed in the proper channel. He comes from Revolu- tionary stock, his grandfather on his mother's side, John Davis, having served as a lieutenant in the army of General George Washington. Ile has had seven sons and seven daughters born to him, eleven of whom are still living, all in this county.
RUFUS DU PREY
is a lineal descendant of the French Huguenots, who by persecution were driven from the Isle of Jersey, off the coast of France. on account of their religious opinions. Some of these thel to Switzerland, sine to England, some to the Channel Islands, and others to the United States. Abraham Duprey, the father of the above, came to the United States in 1817, and located in Chillicothe, Ohio. From there he moved to Galha County in 1824. where Rufus, the subject of this sketch, was born in March, 1830. In 1-52 he was united m marriage to Rebecca Neal, and with his small family moved to Van Wert Conuty in 1-57, and located on the site of his present farm, section 33. Ridge Township. His farm was then all in woods, but with his own hands he has made him-sif a comfortable home, and brought a wild and wooded place under a high state of cultivation. His family consists of himself, wife. and nine children.
JAMES GORDON GILLILAND
was born in Adams County, Penna. In October, 1835, he moved to Van West County and settled in Ridge Township, three and a half miles east of Van Weet. His name is associated with all the official history of the county from its organization in 1836 to the time of his death, which occurred in Isto, leaving a widow and family. He filled every office to which he had been elected with capability and unquestioned in- tegrity. He actively supported all public improvements, and labored effectively for the location and construction of the Meimi and Eric Canal in 1811-5, which was followed by a deeper interest in the construction of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad, which he live I to see become one of the great trunk lines between the Fast and the West. Ile was the son of John Gilliland.
LEVE MOSTER
was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, in 1832, and removed to Ridge Township, Van Wert County, Ohio, in Is51.
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was born in Pennsylvania in 1814, and when about six years of age his parents moved to Knox County, Ohio. In 1-39 he was married to Abigail Lake, and in 184%, with his wife and five children, came to Van Wert County, and located on his present farm in Folge Township, which was then all in woods. He soon erected a log cabin, and then hegan the slavish work of felling the forest, be doing the chopping and his wife piling the brush. After a lifetime of toil he. in his sixty-vighth year. finds himself in vagy circumstances, and the happiness always to be de- rived from a career of energy and industry. He is still bale and hearty, nud leads off in all the work upon the farm.
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HISTORY OF VAN WERT AND MERCER COUNTIES, OHIO.
JOHN GLENDENING
was born in County Derry, Ireland, in 1799, and married Ann Mecksie in 1>21, and the same year emigrated to the United States, and located in the State of Vermont. He resided there until 1810, when he with his family removed to Holmes County, Ohio, and from there, in 1546, he came to Van Wert County, his Bunily then consisting of his wife and five children. Losing his wife in Ists, he married his second wife in 1854 in the person of Naney Foster, by whom he had live children. Mr. Glendening died in 1875. Wen. Glendening, his son, who purchased bis father's farm, was born in Vermont, in 1336, and married Isabel Gamble in 1858, who has borne him four children. He is surrounded with the comforts of a good home.
EDWARD B. GILLILAND,
a son of Thomas Gilliland, was born in Ridge Township, Van Wert County, in 1846. His father, a native of Maryland, was one of the early pioneers of the county, having come here from Maryland in the year 1836, and located on section 29, in Ridge Township. He died in 1860, but previous to his death had served as a justice of the peace of the township for a period of fifteen years. Edward, the subject of this sketch, is a farmer and stock rai-er. In I851 he married Mary J. Collins, daughter of Samuel Collins, and a native of this county, by whom he has had one daughter, Florence A. His mother, whose maiden name was Catharine MeCuun, a native of Maryland, is still living, and makes her home on the old homesteadl.
JONAS S. STUCKEY
is a farmer by occupation, and was born in Auglaize County, Ohio, in 1841, and settled in Ridge Township in 1853. During the War of the Rebellion he enlisted as a private in the 27th O. V. I. and served four years, and was successively promoted to orderly sergeant and to first lieutenant. In 1867 he was elected Clerk of Ridge To ship and filled the office until Isso, when he was elected Justice of the Peace of. the same, and now holds that position. He was anited in marriage in 1565 to Mary F. Gilliland, daughter of Adam Giffiland, of this county. Six children is the result of this union, as follows: Walter S., Julia L., Adam P., Edward S., Maud, and Charles F.
JOSEPH B. FRONEFIELD,
a son of Jacob II. Fronefiehl, is a farmer by occupation, and settled on section 27, Ridge Township, where he still resides in the year 1872. He was born in Stark County, Ohio, in 1939, and in 1840 moved with his parents to Mercer County, but canie here as above stated. He served one year under Sherman in the war of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged on account of disability. In the year 1561 he was married to Martha J. Yocum, by whom he had two sons, Morris N., and Joseph R. The father of this sketch was born in Pennsylvania, and his mother was a native of Germany.
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J. G. MARSH
was born in Germany in 1825, and emigrated with his parents to America in 1832, and located in Lancaster County, Pa., where the family resided until 1835, when they moved to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and after- wards to Richland County. In 1849 the subject of this sketch came to Van Wert County and located on section 25, Ridge Township. He bought bis land all in the woods, and cleared the land and built himself a fine residence by the labor of his own bands. In 1850 he married La- vina Smith. His wife died in 1865, leaving a family of six children, five of whom are still living.
JOHN C. BEAR.
Fairfield County, Ohio, was the place of nativity, and the year 1822, the time of birth of John C. Bear. In Fast he moved to Allen County, where, in 1844. he married Mary Tyson, and in 1815 removed to the place of his present residence in Ridge Township. Here he entered 80 acres of land in the dense forest with no road leading to it. By unre- mitting toil be cleared up the land, and has added to the original tract until he now possesses 150 acres under good improvement, and one of the finest farms and most comfortable homes in the county. He has had fourteen chiktren, eleven of whom are living.
WILLIAM D. IRELAND
was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1:25, and in his infancy his father emigrated to Allen County. In 1 - 17 he married Mary M. Stemen, a native of Pennsylvania, by whom he had nine children, seven of whom are still living. The year of his marriage he came to Van Wert County and settled in Ridge Township. Though three settlers in the township had preceded him, the township was an ahnost unbroken wilderness, Mr. Leland died in 1>66. His widow survives him, and lives with her son, John Ky, on the ofi homestead.
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ALEX. R. McCoy, a native of Madison County, came to this counts in 1839, and is engaged in the grocery trade. He was born Oet. 8, 1835. being brought here by his parents, Alexander and Eliza McCoy, when about four years old. Mr. McCoy served three years in the 99th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from August 5, 1862. He married Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth Anderson, of Hancock County, Oct. 1. 1sts. She was born Dec. 25, Ists. Their family consists of five children. named Nettie J., born Oct. 2, 1869; Charles A., April 3, 1872: Minnie C., August, 8, 1874; Horace A., Nov. 21, 1976, and Mary Estella, May 28, 1879.
Mr. McCoy has served one term a's Justice of the Peace of Ridge Township.
JAMES GORDON GILLILAND, a native of Virginia, was born near Har- per's Ferry, May 3. 1800. In 1835 he came to this county, thus ranking among the pioneers. He married Margaret Lawson, and reared a family of nine children, named, Ehnira F., Ann Eliza. Thaddeus S., Harriet, Susan M., Amanda, Josephine, Oscar L .. and Phebe O.
LEWIS FRAGER
was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1817. His wife's maiden name was Sidney Harper, whom he married in 1841, and who is the mother of his three children, named Wesley, Melinda, and Louisa. In 1852 he came to Ridge Township and settled on section 26, where he still resides. He is a farmer by occupation. With his own hands he cleared up his farm, which is well cultivated and supplied with all the modern improvements.
WILLIAM GAMBLE.
Born in Ireland in 1818, William Gamble emigrated to the United States with his father's family in 1922, and first located in Carroll County, Ohio. In 1851 he came to Ridge Township, aud settled on the farm where he now resides. His first wife died in 1856, leaving four children. He married again m 1-59. Three children, Charles W., Laura E., and Homer G., are the result of this union.
JOHN JO HAUTGEN
was born in Prussia in 1834, and with the family of his father, Francis Jo Hautgen, came to America in 1837. In 1864 he was married to Mary J. Swaningle in Cincinnati, and in 1872 he moved to this county and located on section 28, Ridge Township, where he continues to reside. He is a farmer by occupation, and the father of four sons and three daughters.
ALEXANDER II. McCOY,
a son of David W. McCoy, was born in Fayette County, Ohio, and set- tled in Ridge Township with his parents in the year 1537. He is a farmer by occupation. He was married in Allen County in Isol to Mary A. Maltby, a native of Warren County, Ohio. His family consist, of himself and wife and six children, viz., Harrison, Jeunie, Josephine Albert, Arthur, and Francis. Mira, a daughter, died in 187.
JACOB LIPLEY
was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, in 1815. In 1861 he emigrated to Van Wert County and located in section 22, Ridge Township.
JOUN CRATES
entered land in Ridge Township several years before moving. He set- tled upon it in the year 1830.
LEVI CRATES
was born in Portage County, Ohio, in 1836. He came to Van Wert County when fourteen years of age, and resides on section IG, Ridge Township.
JAMES SPRIDGEON
was born in Lincolnshire, England, 1831, and emigrated to America in 1551. In the year 1852 he settled on section 23, Ridge Township, Van Wert County.
JAMES GIBSON
was born in Ireland in 1816, and emigrated to the United States in 1825. and located on Long Island, and resided there until 1815. In the latter year he removed to Ridge Townstp, this county, where he now livey with his nephew.
FREDERICK SCHUMM.
MAGDALENA SCHUMM.
RES. OF FREDERICK SCHUMM, WILLSHIRE IMP VAN WERT CO. OHIO.
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RES. OF HENRY RUMBLE, HOAGLIN TW'P, VAN WERT CO. OHIO. RES. OF B. C. COGSWELL, JACKSON TWP . VAN WERT CO OHIO.
RES. OF DANIEL SNYDER. UNION TWP, VAN WERT CO. OHIO. W. H. SNYDER'S STORE , UNION TW'P, VAN WERT CO. OHIO.
TILE WORKS
RESIDENCE AND TILE WORKS OF GOTTLIEB MOHR , HOAGLIN TW'P. VAN WERT CO O.
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HISTORY OF VAN AVERT AND MERCER COUNTIES, OHIO.
JACKSON TOWNSHIP.
This township ocenpies the northeast corner of the county, being bounded north by Paulding County. east by Putnam County, south by Washington, and west by Hoaglin townships.
Organization.
On the 7th of March, 1855, a petition was presented the commission- ers praying for the organization of a new township, to embrace sections 4, 5, 6, 7. 8, 9, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27. 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, and 33 of Wash- ington Township, and sections 1, 12, 13, 24, 25, and 36 of Hoagha Town- ship, under the name of Jackson. After due consideration, it was ordered by the commissioners that " all of T. I S., R. 4 E .; . . . also the follow- ing sections, situated in Hoaglin Township, to wit, sections 1. 12. 13, and 24, be and the same are hereby organized and constituted a civil township, to be known by the name of Jackson Township." It was further ordered that an election be held at the school-house on the first Monday of April next.
Election.
An election was held under the above order of the commissioners, and the following officers elected: Trustees, Israel P Adams, Samuel Morris, and George Longwell; Clerk, George Holden ; Treasurer, John Lemer.
Early Settlers.
The first white settler in this township was George Payne, who came from Lorain County, Ohio, to this place in 1851. He was soon followed by Jacob Thatcher, George Longwell. John Lemer, and Israel P. Adams.
George Payne erected the first house, which was a frame, for which the lumber was hauled from the canal. Jacob Thatcher built the first log house. Jacob Thatcher. Jr., is believed to, be the first white chikl born in the township. The first death was that of a child of I. P. Adams. Henry Dennison taught the first term of school in 1858. It was as late as 1:73 when the first church was built. This was by the Christian denomination.
Drainage.
The lack of an efficient system of drainage is the great want of this township. Settlement will continue backward until some of the surface water is given freer outlet. Dog Creck is the general natural outlet, enter- ing the township near the southwest, and leaving it near the northeast corner. Town Creek crosses the northwest section. These and some minor streams furnish sufficient outlet for a complete system of artificial drainage.
Soil.
The soil is a dark loam with a few traces of sand, which at places gives way to a rich clay, slightly intermixed with gravel. The whole soil is well adapted to agrienfture, which is only retarded by the timber and water. The township is sparsely settled and has a meagre popula- tion, owing to causes already set forth.
Legend.
A legend of this section relates that a lead-mine is located somewhere on the banks of Dog Creek, at which Indians procured large quantities of lead. Again it was claimed that water was found here from which salt was obtained by the Indians. Like many other legends it has not been verified except as such.
LAND ENTRIES.
Sec.
Same. Acres. Year. Sec.
Name.
APres. Year.
1 Lvon Starling. 165 1-20
4 M. II. Streh.
160
185L
William Brhb,
4×4 1839
Comme W. Payne.
12 E'tward Brbb,
610 1:29
6 Willsun Behb.
1-39
13 David Toland,
1-39
Samuel Richards,
80
8 Levi Wallace.
140
1-19
Wilham >hofe,
160
John W. Smader.
James Crawford, 160
George Rukuour,
40
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9 Farah J. Fox.
1-50
Fred. Elerinman, 24 Philip Cating.
John Hathill,
10
Luther Grblings. .
160
George W. Holden. 40
40
1×54
Samuel Polumi,
Mar Shaw, John G, Long,
40
140
1~19 17 Lyon Starling.
124
185L William Bobb,
160
41
1853 18 William Bichb.
494 1839
Arrov. Yrat.
See.
Nante.
Acres. Your
18 Lyon Starling,
(80)
180
30 Lynn Starling,
160 1x36
Juha Conrad.
1:51
Henry Baher.
160
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19 Lynn Starling.
327
1836
Henry W. Margroff,
13
Henry Margraff,
433
1838 William Behb,
×7
William Bebb,
80
John F. JJones,
Thomas &. Jones,
174
1839
Evan B. Jones,
47
Chas. W. Paris,
1851
31 Lynn Starling.
100
20 Hardesty Walker,
3220
1×39
Thomas B. Sules,
1=12
Theo. Aldeaadler,
160
Filward Bebb,
312
Henry Springer,
David Lloyd,
×0
21 Henry Springer, Reuben Hine.
John Cathoon.
160
1-12
Israel Adam.
120
George Emerting,
160
1:19
George W. Woods,
Allen Haverfield,
160
28 Joha IL. Seamer, E. Boyer,
120
1852
33 Thomas Bone.
1-52
Charles Long,
80
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Jacob Latz.
60
Julius Wale,
40
1-51
John Richards,
160
1851
William Thoruell,
Samuel Morris,
160
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Simon Fair.
411
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23 William Palmer,
1812
David Frister,
40
John P. Profit,
160
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Israel Thoruel,
20
George Denig.
160
1849
Horace Sessions,
80 1-55
Henry Springer,
160
Poll-book of the election held in the township of Jackson, in the county of Van Wert, Ohio, on the 11th day of October, 1859.
List of Voles with the Names of the Voters.
Josiah Kesler,
George W. Payne, John Hathcall,
Israel P. Adam, R. A. Law,
Samuel Morris,
George W. Holden, George Longwell.
It is hereby certified that the number of votes cast amounted to eight. Signed, R. A. Law, Samari Morris, and George Longwell, Judges. G. W. Hokten and John Hatheall, Clerks.
BIOGRAPHIES.
JAMES HEFFELFINGER
came to this township in 1870. He was a native of Marion County, where he was born in 1938. In 1869 he married Margaret Snyder, by whom he has reared six children. When he came here he settled on timber land, which, by industry and energy he has cleared and other- wise improved until it is a productive farm, with good improvements. He entered the army in the spring of 1861, and served throughout the war. He suffered two wounds, one at Resaca and again at Corinth. From 1:65 to 1868 he was in the West, teanag between Omaha and Denver, having first gone to Colorado to work at mining. His health failing at this, he turned his attention to teaming, in which he had many adventures with the Indians. on several occasions the train being attacked had to be defended by the teamsters, sometimes resulting in sharp light- ing. In Is68 he returned home, and soon married and settled on a firm where he now resides. He relates that when he first came to the town- ship he had only money enough to purchase one sack of flour, and so found it necessary to ditch and eut wood to get means to support him- self, while he cleared his own land by the light of burning brush heaps.
ISRAEL P. ADAM
was born in Berks County, Pa., in 1823, and married Miss Catharine Maltz in 1849, moved to Fairlicht County, Ohio, in 1550, and romaine I there until 1353, then moved to what is now known as Jackson Township. At that time it was unorganized, and only three white families living in the township, viz., Payen's, Thatcher's, and Seamer's. He entered from the government 120 acre's of land in section 21. When Mr. Adam lauded with his wife and one child, it was in the woods. He cleared a smail piece of ground, and built himself a cabin without any help. The nearest cut-out road was about four miles distant. There were no schools for several years. The nearest place of worship was right and a quarter miles. Mr. Adam has raised a family of cleven children, eight of whom are still living. He owned a half section of land, but he- given some to his children. He and his wife, with the help of one horse. rolled the logs on 40 acres, and but few of the early settlers of Van Wert County have labored harder and seen more of the hardships of pioneer life than he and his wife. Mr. Adam has been treasurer of the town- ship continuously for eighteen years, with the exception of one year.
GEORGE CARMEAN
was born in Ross County, Ohio, in 1919, and moved to Allen County in Iste, and from there came to Jackson Township in ISTA. At that time there had been but little ditching done in the township. It was mainly through his efforts that the principal ditches were ent and leading roads opened.
4 Corydon slygh. Robert Stewart, Dwight Gabba,
40
John & Jacob Thatcher,
18:1
120 1851
William F. Preston,
John H. Maltz.1
160
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Hugh M. Wallace,
Jane Thatcher. Jonathan Preston,
1237
..
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32 Evan Evans,
160
1-99
120
1×55
1853 =
Julins C. Curtis,
811
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W. F. Westerficht,
..
..
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Sve.
Natne.
-
JJohu Conrad,
7 Edward Bebb. Jr ..
1×55
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HISTORY OF VAN WERT AND MERCER COUNTIES, OHIO.
B. C. CoasWELL,
a native of Washington County, Ohio, was born in 1921. When he was about five years of age his mother died, and he was placed in the care of an uncle who lived at Athens, Ohio, Here he learned the tanger trade and worked with his uncle until he was twenty-one, when he went to Logan, Ohio, and worked at his trade until 1947. At this date he married Mary Cushing and moved to Me Nithur, Ohio. Here he lived until 1>54. when death robbed him of his wife and two children. In 1868 he returned to Logan, where he remained until 1871, when he came to Van Wert County. In 1862 he married Jane Stone, by whom he has reared three children. Mr. Cogswell did not enjoy the most liberal educational advantages, as his time was occupied by toil. Still be bas found time to interest hin- self in all the improvements of the day, and so by reading the current literature has kept himself informed touching the news and the progress of society and the arts.
GEORGE LONGWELL
was born in Delaware County, Ohio, 1815. In 1839 he was married to Mary A. Sheets and moved to Jackson Township in 1851. and located in the woods with his wife and seven children. At that time there was not a settler in that section. His nearest neighbor lived two miles dis- tant. After he had built a cabin and cleared a few acres of land he learned that he was the victim of the mistake of locating on another man's land, and that the necessity of moving on to their own farm was evident. Thus be lost a year of labor with all its embarrassments and anxieties. The first election held in the township was at his house. A very rare thing to be found in this section of Ohio is a white sulphur spring. One flows. however, near his house. Mr. Longwell died in 1512, leaving a family of ten children.
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PETER SNYDER.
a native of Pennsylvania, was born in Washington County, in 1832. When four years old he was brought to Richand County, but moved to Morrow County in I851. From there he came to this township in 185?, but eighteen months later returned to Morrow, at which place he en- listed in the service in the spring of IsGI. In 1969 he returned to this county, where he still resides. In 185; he married Martha Jones, of whom be was berett by death in Is62. Seven years later he married Amelia Sny- der, by whom he has reared two children. By his former marriage he also reated two children. When he first came here there were but ten voters, and not a road opened in the township.
GEORGE MERICLE
was born in Hocking County, Ohio. in 1833, and married Miss Barbara Biery in 1:55, by whom he has had tive children. They came to Jackson Township in the fall of 1-60, and located on seetion 1, where he now resides. When Mr. Mericle came to his latil there was not a stick cut ; . the only way he cothi see out was to look directly upward. He bought 80 acres, which he has now under good improvement. He has one of the best houses in the township. He served in the army during the Rebellion.
WM. T. STERLING,
one of the substantial farmers of this township, was born in Knox County, Ohio, in 1539, and came to this county in I>65, where be settled on see- tion 31. Three years later he married Martha J. Longwell, by whom he las reared five children. He is now living on section 32.
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