JOHN H. FANGMANN, farmer, Kelso Township, is a native of Dearborn County, Ind., born in the same, March 25, 1844. His parents were John B. and Annie M.C. (BUSCH) FANGMANN, both natives of Oldenburgh, Germany, and were born - the former, October 31, 1795, and the latter, December 8, 1809. They were united in marriage in Germany, and from thence, in the spring, of 1832 immigrated to the United States, settling on the same farm where our subject now lives, and there they resided until their deaths, which occurred - the father, October 28, 1877, and the mother, November 23, 1881. Fifteen children were born to the union, viz; Catherine, Elizabeth, Dora, Mary, Bernedine, Magdalena, Frances, Annie, Agnes, John H., Bernard, Lewis, Christena, William and Christena E. John H., our subject, the eldest son, was educated at New Alsace. He was married in Kelso Township, this county, February 5, 1867, to Theresia L. Lange. who was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, April 16, 1849, and was a daughter of Charles H. and Mary A. (KELLER) LANGE. After his marriage he settled on his present farm, where he has since resided. they have had born to them six children, viz.: Mary A.C., Caroline B., Charles W., Annie J., Bernard H., Charles H. Mr. FANGMANN is a highly esteemed young man, and a man of good general information. He was elected trustee of Kelso Township in 1880, and re-elected in 1882. Himself and family are members of the Catholic Church.
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JOHN FEIST, county commissioner, York Township, was born in Cincinnati in 1834. His parents, John and Barbara (LEMMEL) FEIST, were both natives of Germany, and came to America while yet unmarried, in 1832. His father was born in 1804, his mother in 1805; the former in Baden, the latter in Bavaria. On immigrating to America the father landed at New York the mother at New Orleans, and they met in Cincinnati, about one year later, and in July , 1833, were married. In 1834, the moved to Dearborn County, and located in York Township, where Mr. FEIST purchased forty acres of Government land on which he resided about five years. after which he purchased another tract of eighty acres which served as his homestead about twenty-five years. He then moved to Yorkville, where in 1870, his life peacefully closed. His widow is still living in her seventy-sixth year. In his earlier years Mr. FEIST was a stone cutter by trade, but his health failed and he adopted farming as a pursuit. On the farm John FEIST grew to maturity, sharing but limited advantages of schooling in his youth. At the age of nineteen years he married Frances MILLER, a native of this township, daughter of Joseph and Mary A. (SCHULTZER) MILLER, both natives of Bavaria, who immigrated to America in 1832. After his marriage, in 1853, Mr. FEIST continued his work in various places for some time, and then Mr. FEIST continued his work in various places for some time, and then engaged in brick-making, gradually working his way up. He first purchased a lot of two acres, then another of forty, then eighty, and so on with gradual gain till he now owns ninety-six acres of valuable land well improved in buildings and cultivation. He has since bought and sold another farm of forty-five acres. His first tax receipt was for 14 cents, and this had gradually increased till it now approximates the sum of $50.00 H has always taken an active interest in politics, never having missed a vote since casting his first one in 1855, always giving his influence in favor of the Democratic party. As an evidence of his popularity, and the esteem in which he is held as a citizen, ti will be noted that he has served as township assessor eight years, and as township trustee eleven years. In March, 1884, he was appointed to fill the vacancy in the office of county commissioner, caused by the death of John BUCHERT, and in the fall of the same year was elected to fill the unexpired term of one year. In public as well as private life Mr. FEIST is a man of unblemished reputation, which gives to him the credit of always doing his conscientious duty both as a citizen and public servant. Mr. and Mrs. FEIST have three children; Paul, Clara, and Theodore, The eldest son is now a resident of Hastings, Neb.
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PIERRE FERMIER, physician, Jackson Township, was born in Bavaria, Germany, March 25, 1825, is a son of Philip and Magdalina (MARTIN) FERMIER, natives of Bavaria, he being a descendant of the Huguenots. They lived and died in their native land, reaching the advanced ages of one hundred and one and one hundred and three years respectively. Their children, seven in number, all grew to maturity; three now survive; Henry, now a resident of Pennsylvania; Christena, now widow KLEIN, residing in Philadelphia, and Dr. Pierre. Of those deceased, two died in their native country, and two: Charles and Jackson, came to America. The former died in Philadelphia and the latter in Mobile, Ala. One remarkable incident connected with this family is the fact that the three sons who came to America, all in different years, yet all came over in the same vessel - The "St. Nicholas." Charles had, however, contracted to come in another vessel, but when it came to sail he refused to go aboard of her, believing her to be unsafe, which proved true, as she was lost on the voyage. Dr. FERMIER came to America in 1849, a young, single man. He had received a very liberal education in Germany, first taking a thorough classical course at Kaiser's Lautern, and at Zweibruecken, thence graduating at the University of Munich. In 1849 he was engaged as the first examining physician for the army of the Revolution, he being a strong Republican, from powerful convictions brought upon him by the laws and customs of that kingdom - Bavaria - in being compelled to make obeisance to an infant babe, the future heir to the throne. Immediately upon the completion of the above duties as examining physician, the Doctor came to America, landing in New York, from whence he went to Boston and entered upon the practice of his profession. Remaining there but a few months, he came to Indiana and settled in Jackson Township; where he has had a large and successful practice for thirty-five years, and is now, by appointment of the commissioners, the attending physician for the paupers of of Jackson Township. The Doctor was united in marriage April 2, 1857, with Miss Elizabeth EHLER, born September 11, 1834, a daughter of Thomas and Catharine (FASTNACHT) EHLER, natives of Pennsylvania. In 1817 Mr. EHLER settled in Dearborn County, entering eighty acres of land on the southwest quarter of Section 1, Jackson Township, being, it is believed, the second settler in this township. His nearest neighbor was in Manchester Township, one and a half miles distant, and the nearest mill for grinding, twelve miles, on the Whitewater, with only a blazed path leading to it through the unbroken forest. Here Mr. EHLER performed much hard work opening out his farm, and here he resided through life. His wife died about 1863, aged sixty-three years. He died in 1877, aged seventy-nine years. They were parents of eight children; all grew to maturity, six now living: Rosanna, wife of William O'BRIEN, residing in Ripley County, Ind; William; Jesse, residing in Missouri; Elizabeth; Catharine, wife of John ALDEN, residing in Kansas, and Jane, wife of George NEED, residing in California. Mr. EHLER was one of the founders of the St. John's Lutheran Church, formerly known as the Engel Church, of which he and his wife were active members through life, and they were interred in their burying ground by the church. By this union the Doctor has seven children: Mary, wife of Aaron KELLER, of Lawrenceburgh; Cordelia, Pierre G., George, Emile ( the last three are now in college at Valparaiso, Ind.) Alma and Richard. Dr. Fermier was the first regular physician ever located in Jackson Township, and although there have been other physicians located here in practice since, yet he is the only one who has remained permanently. He has a large practice, and holds the confidence of the people.
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DR. EZRA FERRIS was born at Stanwich, Conn., April 26, 1783. His father, who was also a native of that village, six years after the birth of Ezra, was determined to emigrate to the far West. The enterprise at that time was so novel and so daring that it drew together a number of people to witness the departure. Dr. FERRIS, in his old age, wrote that although he was only six years old at the time, he had a distinct and vivid recollection of the occasion. His father, September 20, 1789, with his family, and accompanied by two other families, took their departure. As the little party of emigrants took their seats in wagons and moved down the road, they were surrounded by a crowd on every side ready to predict that they would either fall a sacrifice to savage cruelty or be drowned in descending the Western rivers. But nothing could overcome the courage of the little company. Their route was along the road on the north side of Long Island SOund to New York City, thence through New Jersey and Pennsylvania and over the Allegheny Mountains to the Monongahela River; thence, by boats to FOrt Miami, about three-fourths of a mile below the mouth of the Little Miami, where they arrived December 12, 1789, having been two months and twenty days on the journey. There were, at that time, some thirty or forty families living in the fort, without the restraints of civil law and destitute of almost all kinds of provisions except such as could be obtained from the woods, in which hovered the hostile savages. An apartment in the fort, about sixteen feet square, was assigned to the family, in which the resided for a time. The first five years Ezra FERRIS spent at Columbia were during the horrors of an Indian war. He saw the dejection of the spirits of the pioneers when Harmar's expedition failed and St. Clair was disastrously defeated, and participated in the rejoicing over Wayne's victory. He has given a vivid picture of the hardships and deprivations the settlers at Columbia were compelled to undergo during this period. "Many of them," he says, "had been raised in opulence and had indulged in luxuries and enjoyed all the necessaries of life, now removed far from their former homes, where nothing but the most common fare could be had, and that often in stinted measure, were cast down though not forsaken. Add to the want of bread, the mortification an American mother ( who had been at all times in the habit of clothing her children comfortably, and sometimes ornamenting them to please her fancy), must feel to see them clad in rags and dirt, for the want of materials to make new clothes of, or soap to wash them when dirty, and you will see enough to discourage and distress them."
Ezra FERRIS had the benefit of such schools as could be supported at Columbia during the Indian war, and after the return of peace, obtained a good education. When a young man he studied in a good school in one of the Eastern States, and his education was quite a liberal one for the son of an early western emigrant. When quite a young man he was licensed as a Baptist preacher at the Duck Creek Baptist Church and was afterward ordained. He also studied medicine. For some years he taught a school at Lebanon, Ohio, when he removed to Lawrenceburgh and there practiced medicine and also preached to the destitute Baptist churches of that vicinity. He was elected a member of the convention which formed the first constitution of Indiana, and in that body was chairman of the committee on the elective franchise and elections. He also served as a member of the State Legislature. On the organization of the State Government he was appointed by the Legislature one of the censors for licensing physicians in the third medical district. Before he became an old man he retired from the active practice of medicine, but continued his drug store. He also continued to preach at Lawrenceburgh and at Salem.
Dr. FERRIS was a most useful man. He was modest and retiring, but highly respected by all. He was strongly attached to his own branch of the church and was a sincere and deeply pious man. In politics he was a Whig. He was a man of fixed principles and his friends always knew where to find him. In 1851 he published a series of articles on the early settlement of the Miami Valley. A.H.Dunlevy, in his History of the Miami Baptist Association wrote: "Elder Ferris knew more of the early history of the Miami country than any man living at the time of his death. He was not a man to be prejudiced, as it is too often the case, so as to form unjust opinions or give undue coloring to any transactions related by him." The reader will find in this work copious selections from his writings. Dr. FERRIS was twice married. He died at Lawrenceburgh, April 19, 1857.
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WILLIAM T. FERRIS, of Lawrenceburgh, died in that city, August 1, 1883, aged seventy years. He was a son of of Dr. Ezra FERRIS, one of the prominent and useful citizens of the same city, whose sketch will be found elsewhere on this work. Our subject commenced business for himself at Hartford before he had reached his majority, but after three or four years, he returned to Lawrenceburgh, and for a number of years was engaged in the wholesale grocery business with John Wymond, the firm being Wymond & FERRIS, which met with great success. He was next in business in Cincinnati, then for a time farmed, and for many years prior to his death, he was connected with the revenue service. He passed a long life of usefulness and died leaving a name unsullied.
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CHARLES E. FERRIS, druggist, of Lawrenceburgh, is a native of Dearborn County, born in 1850. His father was John FERRIS, and his grandfather, Dr. Ezra FERRIS, one of the pioneers of the West, and a man of prominence and great worth in the early settlement at Lawrenceburgh, a sketch of whom appears above. Our subject grew up in Lawrenceburgh, and received his education in the public schools of the place. In 1869 he began clerking in the drug store, then the property of his father, and has since continued in the same business, the store having been first established by Dr. Ezra FERRIS early in the present century, and since carried on in the FERRIS name, having descended from father to son and to grandson, and now carried on by the FERRIS brothers., who are genial and affable gentlemen.
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GERHARD FETTE, proprietor of the New Alsace Flouring-mills, Kelso Township, was born at New Alsace, Ind., October 6, 1841. His parents were Frank and Mary A. (VOLMERING) FETTE, both natives of Germany, where they were born, the father January 6, 1811, and the mother September 29, 1812. They were united in marriage in Germany, and from thence, in 1839, immigrated to the United States, landing at Baltimore, from which city they came to Cincinnati, and about one year later moved to New Alsace, Dearborn County, where the father worked at his trade, he being a blacksmith. In 1846 he moved to Oldenburg, Franklin County, this State, and in 1852 moved to New Alsace, where he afterward resided until death, which occurred June 11, 1877. His wife still survives, and resides at New Alsace. They were the parents of seven children: Henry (deceased), Gerhard, Annie, Agnes (deceased), Elizabeth, Mary and Rosa. Gerhard, our subject, the second member of the family, learned the blacksmith trade and carriage-making with his father when a young man, and afterward engaged in the business for a number of years. He was united in marriage at New Alsace November 28, 1865, to Elizabeth KLEE, who was born at Cincinnati, Ohio, September 1, 1846, and was a daughter of Nicholas and Margaret (HARTIG) KLEE. After his marriage he first settled at Weisburg, this county, where he carried on blacksmithing. In 1872 he moved to Washington, Daviess Co., Ind., and from thence, in 1874, to Weisburg, and in 1878 to Ripley County, Ind., and purchased a mill and engaged in milling two years, then moved his mill to New ALsace and erected the building where it now stands. He is doing an extensive business at present. He is an estimable man, and is well respected by all who know him. They have had born to them ten children: George T., Nicholes H., Frank J., Andrew E., John H., Mary C., Dora M., Margaret M., Martin I., Anthony A. Mr. FETTE and family are members of the Catholic Church.
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MICHAEL FICHTER, Lawrenceburgh, the oldest shoe-maker in business in the town, was born in Straasburg, France (now Germany), in 1826, and learned his trade in his native country. He continued his trade in that country till 1847, when he immigrated to the United States, coming direct to Lawrenceburgh. He first engaged here with one Harbaugh, with whom he was employed till 1854, when he opened up a shop of his own. Since that time Mr. FICHTER has conducted a fairly successful business in the boot and shoe line in Lawrenceburgh. He is now located at No. 80 High Street, which building he owns, and keeps on hand a good stock of custom made and eastern goods valued at about $1,000. Mr. FICHTER was married, in 1852, to Sophia WAGNER, who was born in Baden, Germany, and who immigrated to this country in 1846. Their children are Henry, Mary (Mrs. GARNER), Sarah, Alice, Lily, John, Emma and Charles, the eldest son being a workman on a passenger train between Cincinnati and Vincennes. John FICHTER is a printer by trade, at present employed in the office of the Lawrenceburgh Register. The family is associated with the German Methodist Church. Mr. FICHTER'S business room is a part of the first brick tavern which was built in Lawrenceburgh in 1818.
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DR. DAVID FISHER, was born in the State of Vermont about the year 1780. But little is known of his early education, or at what time he commenced the study of medicine, or whether he was a graduate of any medical college, but he acquired a good medical education and obtained a certificate of qualification from a medical board of examiners in Vermont and practiced his profession in that State until 1812. He then immigrated to Peru, NY., and practiced his profession at that place until 1818. He then removed to Coshcoton, Ohio, and remained there a little over a year. He next immigrated to Wilmington, Ind., and a few years afterward to Aurora. He was one of the company that purchased the ground and assisted in laying out the plat of the town of Aurora. He purchased Lots 153 and 154, on the corner of Fourth and Water Streets; here he erected what was considered in those days a large building, and kept a hotel. This was carried on in connection with the practice of his profession, which often extended for ten or twenty miles into the country. He resided in Aurora until about 1826 or 1828, when he removed to a farm back of Rising Sun. On this farm he resided, occasionally changing his residence to Rising Sun, until 1845, when he was disabled by a stroke of apoplexy, which incapacitated him fro the active duties of his profession. In January, 1851, he received another stroke of apoplexy, and died quietly at his home in Rising Sun. As a physician he was faithful; neither bad roads nor stormy weather kept him from visiting his patients. He was remarkable for the correctness of his diagnosis and was opposed to active depletion in the treatment of disease. As a man he was always a diligent reader of standard medical books. He was a zealous member of a district medical society which had been organized in this portion of the State, and which continued in existence until about 1825.
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HARRY FISK, postmaster, City of Aurora, is a native of Kenton County, Ky., Born March 11, 1840, and received a common school education in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, William B. FISK, was born in Maine, in 1803, and his mother, Cynthia STEVENS, was born in Kentucky. The former was a carpenter, and the family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1843, where they remained until 1858, at which time they moved to Indianapolis, thence to Kansas in 1870, where the father died in 1872. In 1855 Harry FISK engaged in carriage painting, and continued at his trade up to 1861. At this period of life he enlisted in the Union Army, in the three months' service, as a private soldier. At the expiration of this term of service he enlisted in Company A., Seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers for three y ears. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Port Republic, and escaped after six weeks' incarceration in prison at Lynchburgh, and returned to his regiment. Immediately thereafter he was commissioned second lieutenant. On the 8th of May, 1864, he was wounded in one limb at Spottsylvania Court House. His army experience as a private soldier and officer was enviable, having participated in many important battles. In 1865 he, with three brothers, started a carriage factory in Aurora, all being mechanics, took charge of separate branches and worked faithfully, which enabled them to surmount all obstacles and prosper in the enterprise. In 1883 Harry withdrew from the firm, and accepted the office of postmaster at Aurora, which position he is now holding. He was married, November 15, 1864, to Miss Ludici CROWLEY, a native of Missouri, who was born December 13, 1849. By the union five children have been born namely: George W., Frank, Harry, Kate and Anna. His estimable wife is a member of the Baptist Church. In 1868 he was appointed United States Gauger and served for two years. He was a member of the city council from the Third Ward from 1876 to 1880, and officiated as treasurer of the Agricultural Society from 1873 to1883. He is a member of Dearborn Lodge No. 442, F. & A.M. From 1880 to 1883 he filled the important office of deputy collector, and is a quiet, law abiding citizen.
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JOSEPH FOLZENLOGEL, farmer, Kelso Township, is a native of Germany, and was born at Alsace, in March, 1824. His parents, Nicholas and Mary (GRUSENMIER) FOLZENLOGEL, were both natives of Germany. They were the parents of ten children, viz: Martin, Mary A, Dora, Catherine, Nicholas, Joseph, Magdalena, Michael, Frances and Elizabeth. Joseph immigrated to the United States in 1849, first settling at New York City, where he engaged in cabinet-making, following it about four years. From thence he went to Illinois, where he worked at the carpenter trade one year. He then went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and worked at the carpenter trade about two years. From thence he went to Kansas, where he also engaged in the same, and from thence, in 1858, he came to Dearborn County, Ind., and purchased and settled on his present farm. May 4, 1858, he married Magdalena SIBLER, by whom he has had born to him eleven children, viz: Mary A., Frances, Magdalena, Joseph, Elizabeth, Caroline, Catherine, Annie, Edward, George and Dora B. (deceased). Mr. FOLZENLOGEL and family are members of the Catholic Church.
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ROBERT H. FOWLER, of Lawrenceburgh, one of the few surviving pioneers and venerable men of the city and county, is a son of Henry and Ann (KING) FOWLER, natives of Prince William County, Va., and of Fairfax County, Va., respectively, of French and Scotch descent, was born at Charlestown, near Harper's Ferry, Va., October 9, 1803. His father, was a cooper by trade, and in 1810 settled on Wilson's Creek, in Lawrenceburgh Township, where his death occurred June 22, 1815. The mother died in 1858, aged eighty-three years. Our subject was the eldest of six children, and , through necessity, began the battle of life young and with little education, having gone to school probably not more than nine months in all. Until the age of twenty years he remained on the farm with his mother, and assisted in raising the younger members of the family. For twenty years he followed flat-boating on the Ohio River, being engaged as a pilot the greater part of the time. In the meantime, October 12, 1826, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary Ann BUTTERFIELD, a Virginian by birth. To this union were born three daughters, viz: Emily M. Caroline S. and Margaret J., all of whom are now living. Since leaving the river trade Mr. FOWLER has farmed until recent years, when he removed to Lawrenceburgh, where he is now spending the evening of his life in a comfortable home with a daughter; Mrs. Emily GRAY. The death of his wife occurred at Lawrenceburgh January 19, 1883. Mr Fowler cast his first vote in 1824, for John Quincy Adams, for President of the United States, and has ever since sustained the doctrines advocated by the old Whig party until the organization of the Republican party, when he became identified with that party, and has since acted with it. All of the family were Baptists, our subject having been identified with that church since 1839. Mr FOWLER is well preserved in mind and body for one of his years, and will ever refer with pleasure to the friendly calls exchanged during its preparation.
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JAMES B. FOX, Harrison Township, one of the well to do farmers of this township and a veteran of the Mexican war, was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1830. His parents, Jacob and Rebecca (POLAN) FOX, are both natives of New Jersey, and of German and ENglish descent, respectively. His mother was born September 19, 1801, and is still living , well preserved for one of her years. Her grandfather was a commissioned officer in command of a naval vessel in the Revolution as was lost in battle. Her relatives all reside in New Jersey, and there she grew to womanhood. During the war of 1812, she was an eye witness of the engagement between the naval vessels "Wasp" and "Frolic," which scene she still vividly recalls. Her father died while she was yet a child, and she was reared by her mother with three other sisters, only two of whom are now living. In her twenty-second year she married Jacob FOX, who was a soldier of the war of 1812, and a blacksmith by trade. It is worthy of note that both Mr. and Mrs. FOX were born in the same house and in their youth playmates. In 1825 the family which then included four children emigrated westward, going by wagon to Pittsburgh, thence by steamboat to Cincinnati. They located in Hamilton County, Ohio, where they resided some five years and then moved to this county. Here the father gave up his trade and engaged in keeping hotel at the old country stand where his widow still resides. He died here in September, 1845, and the business was conducted for many years after by Mrs. FOX. Before his death Mr. FOX had purchased 160 acres of land, and this homestead is still in the possession of the family. In his day Jacob FOX was a prominent member of the F. & A.M., attaining the "royal arch" degree, and his acquaintanceship extended over the greater portion of southeastern Indiana. James B. FOX, the subject proper of this notice, remained under the paternal roof till his seventeenth year when he enlisted in the war against Mexico, in which he participated in six general battles -- four under Taylor and two under Scott. He was a member of Company C, Third Artillery, Bagg's Battery, and fired the first cannon between the American and Mexican Armies at Pal Alto. May 8, 1846. He took part in the engagement at Resaca de la Palma, Monterey, Buena Vista, Tampico and Sierra Gorda; all are famous in the history of our country. After the close of the war he was for some time employed as mail carrier between Santa Fe and Fort Leavenworth, and in the Southwest he remained about two years. In October, 1851, he was commissioned by Burnside to carry a government dispatch to Fort Leavenworth, and the distance of 800 miles he covered on horseback in eleven days. In the following January he went with a government train to Texas, and in June returned to his present home, where he has since remained, engaged in the quiet pursuit of agriculture. Mr. FOX is now fifty-five years old, a genial bachelor, free from family care, and he has voted for ever Democratic President since the campaign of Franklin Pierce.
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MARTIN V. FOX, Harrison Township, one of the best farmers of the same, was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, near Cincinnati, in 1832, and is a son of Jacob and Rebecca (POLAN) FOX, natives of Salem County, N.J., near the Delaware. Mr. FOX grew up on the farm with his parents and has always engaged in agricultural pursuits. He purchased his present farm of 100 acres in 1865, and since that time has never moved his effects but once. He was married, in November, 1865, to Cornelia (GRIFFITH) of Hamilton County, Ohio, and daughter of David and Eliza (LAWRENCE) GRIFFITH, her father of Ohio, her mother from Massachusetts. Benjamin GRIFFITH, her grandfather, was one of the earliest settlers of Hamilton County, and is said to have taught the firs school of that county in a flat-boat which was made fast to a tree by a grapevine. Her parents remained residents of Hamilton County. Her father died in 1844; her mother in 1881. Mr. and Mrs. FOX have had six children: Henry, Adna, Martin V., Walter, Carrie and Eddie. they are rewarded for their industry by a liberal share of the comforts of life in the way of a comfortable home, and they enjoy the esteem of a large circle of friends.
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PHILIP FREIBERGER, retired, Aurora, , is a native of Germany, born in Bavaria, March 28, 1823, where he received a common school education. His parents, John and Catharine (SCHEMLIN) FREIBERGER were natives of Bavaria, the father was born in 1790, and died in 1849. Philip came to America in 1846, and located in Somerset County, Penn., where he worked at the carpenter's trade , and manufactured cigars. He was married, August 18, 1846 to Miss Mary HARRING at Chambersburgh, Penn.; she was born September 23, 1825. Eight children have been born to the marriage, namely: Elizabeth, born February 24, 1847; Caroline born January 18, 1849; John, born October 13, 1850; Philip, born July 2, 1852, died February 10, 1861; Mary A., born August 20, 1854; Andy, born July 22, 1858; Lillie, born June 2, 1861; George, born June 5, 1863. Michael HARRING, the father of Mrs. FREIBERGER, was born in 1790 and her mother, Catharine (KRUITZER) HARRING was born in 1800. They came to America in 1846. Philip came to Aurora, Ind., in 1847, and followed carpentering, and various brances of business. He is a member of the Druids and German Reformed Church.
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In the early settlement in the southern part of the township, (Pike Township) (Ohio county, Indiana) a class of Methodists was accustomed to worship at residence of George French, who was a class leader. This denomination, we believe, has never erected a meeting-house of their own in the township.
George (John) Frensch was born 19 Sep 1775 the son of Joahn and Maria Barabara FRENSCH in Chanceford township, York County, PA. George was baptized 15 Oct 1775 Micheal and Ana Elisabeth Worn were the sponsors. The Register of Stehis later known as St Luke's Union Congregation, Chanceford township, York county, PA.
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ELIJAH FULLER, farmer, Sparta Township, was born in Dearborn County, Ind., November 10, 1835. His parents, Elijah and Azubah (GLOYD) FULLER, were natives of New York and Massachusetts respectively, and were born, the former May 19, 1783, and the latter December 11, 1798. They were married in Dearborn County, Ind, June 15, 1823 and settled in Sparta Township, where he engaged in saw-milling and farming, and where they resided until their deaths, which occurred, the mother August 5, 1854, and the father August 8, 1858. They were the parents of six children, viz.: Amanda, Eliza, Truman, Martha, Emily and Elijah. The latter was united in marriage in Sparta Township, December 5, 1858, with Mary J., daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth NOBLE. She was born in Dearborn County Ind., September 23, 1839. After our subject's marriage he settled on the old homestead where he has since resided. He owns ninety-seven acres of land, has a family of four children, namely: Ella F., born December 13, 1865; Anna B., born June 6, 1867. Mr. FULLER is a gentleman and he and his family highly esteemed.
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