GEORGE HAYES, a thrifty farmer of Lawrenceburgh Township, was born here in 1832. He is a son of Jacob HAYES, with whom he remained on the farm till about thirty years of age, sharing the advantages of the common schools. He learned the wagon trade, and this, in connection with the manufacture of a patent corn-drill, which he invented himself, he was for some time engaged in. As early as the age of fourteen years he mad a trip to New Orleans with his father, who did an extensive flat-boating business at that time, carrying stock and produce to that city. On his first trip their cargo consisted of 196 head of cattle and a number of hogs. Mr. HAYES was married, in 1859, to Martha A. BALES, a native of Hancock County, Ind., daughter of Abijah and Amelia BALES, and they have three children: Jacob, Leah and Isaac. Mr. HAYES owns nearly 500 acres of land, and is an industrious and energetic farmer.

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J.W. HAYMAN, merchant, Moore's Hill, an old and highly respected citizen of that village, was born in Worcester County, Md., July 31, 1816. His parents, Levin and Martha (WALSTON) HAYMAN, were both natives of Maryland, where they resided during their entire lives. They were the parents of ten children, viz.: Robert R., Jacob H., Levin P., Edward W., Leah C., Susan R., Ann M., Rufus M., Mahala C. and Jesse W., our subject, being the sixth member of the family. He was educated in Maryland, and when about sixteen years of age began learning the carpenter's trade, which he completed, and also the cabinet making and millwright trade, and afterward engaged in the same for a number of years. In April , 1838, he came to Moore's Hill, Ind., and was here married November 29, 1839, to Fannie C., daughter of John and Amelia (DUNCAN) DASHIELL, born in Dearborn County, Ind., July 16, 1820. Soon after Mr. HAYMAN'S marriage he located at Dillsborough, where he engaged in milling a short time, after which he removed to Wilmington, where he remained until 1840, at which time he moved back to Moore's Hill, where he has since resided. After moving there in 1840m he engaged in teaching school for some time, teaching the first public school at that place. He subsequently opened up a store there, and has since engaged in merchandising. In February, 1863, he was appointed postmaster at Moore's Hill, still retains the office. Mr. HAYMAN is respected by all who know him. He and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They were the parents of seven children, namely: Thomas L. (died in the war), Luther T., John E., Alice M., George H., Ernest O., Milna D. (deceased).

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D.H. HELMS, Clay Township, was born in the same September 21, 1838. He is one of twelve children born to the old and highly esteemed pioneers of that locality, Alfred and Eliza W. (JONES) HELMS. The former was born in Lincoln County, N.C., in the year 1816, and the latter in Clermont County, Ohio, in the same year. They were married in Dearborn County in 1837, after which they settled on a farm on the banks of what is known as "Hayes Branch," Clay Township, where they have since resided. They have had born to them twelve children, viz.: John W., David H., William H., Andrew, Phillip, Mary J., Isaac T., Clarissa, Levi, Charles B., Albert S. and one who died in infancy. D.H., our subject, was brought up as a farmer. He received a good common school education, and after reaching the years of maturity, he left the "land of steady habits," and turned the greater part of his attention to teaching school, beginning the profession as early as 1858. He has taught 149 months of school, all in Dearborn County, with the exception of three terms. In 1862 he entered the war, enlisting August 11, in Company B, Eighty-third Indiana Volunteers, as a private, and in August 1863, was made orderly sergeant, and May, 1865, he received the commission of second lieutenant, in which capacity he served until his discharge, June 2, 1865. After his discharge he returned to Dearborn County and resumed his school work and also farming. In October, 1865, he purchased the farm on which he now resides. He was married at Lawrenceburgh, October 17, 1867, to Jane T., daughter of William C. and Sarah (SPANGLER) JOHNSON. She was born in Cesar Creek Township, Dearborn Co., May 18, 1840. The following spring, after his marriage, Mr. HELMS moved on his farm, where he has since resided. They have had born to them nine children, viz.: Lightburn, John F., Lewis (deceased) Benjamin (deceased) Arthur L. (deceased) Charles, Orville D., Annie M., and Victor H. Mr. HELMS is a member of the G.A.R. and an esteemed citizen of the township.

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H.R. HELMUTH, of Lawrenceburgh, is a native of Bremen, Germany. He was born in 1815, September 4, and at the age of fourteen years immigrated to America. He remained east of the mountains till 1832, and then came to Cincinnati, where he resided until 1837. He learned the cooper trade, and pursued that occupation for several years, and for a few months conducted a distillery at Rising Sun, but gave up the latter business from conscientious scruples. In 1837 he located in Lawrenceburgh, where he has ever since resided. His father died in 1845. In 1850 Mr. HELMUTH opened up a dry goods and grocery store in Lawrenceburgh, and has ever since engaged in mercantile business. He closed out the stock of dry goods several years ago, and has since dealt only in staple and fancy groceries, carrying one of the neatest and best selected stocks in his line in the city. His son, William HELMUTH, or "Will," as he is popularly termed, has recently been admitted to the firm, which is now known as H.R.HELMUTH & Son. They are doing a prosperous business, which is the result of a strict attention to the same, together with the pluck and energy which they have exercised in carrying it forward. H.R. HELMUTH was married, in 1839, to Mary SARTWELL, a native of Lawrenceburgh, and daughter of Justice and Dorsie Sartwell, her parents being among the earliest settlers of dearborn county. Her mother's people were from Pennsylvania, and her father's from New England. This union resulted in the birth of four children, who are now living, viz.: Maggie J., widow of Hugh THOMPSON; Louisa; Ella, wife of D.G. JUSTICE, and William. The latter, who is now a partner in the business, as stated above, was born in Lawrenceburgh, and educated in its schools,and in that city his entire life has been passed. He was married, October 11, 1883, to Miss Anna DEWERS, of Aurora, Ind., a daughter of Henry DEWERS, of that city. Mr. HELMUTH is a young man of energy and good business qualifications, and these qualities coupled with affable and obliging manners, are sure to gain for him that success in his business which nature has so well fitted him to achieve. The family generally is one of the most highly esteemed in the community.

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JAMES Q. HELPHENSTINE, piano and organ dealer, Wilmington, is a native of Ohio, and was born in Madison County December 27, 1837. His father, William, was born in Pennsylvania in 1801, and was drowned at Memphis, Tenn., in 1848. His mother, Mary (POWELL) HELPHENSTINE, was born in Virginia in 1815, and died in July 1862. James Q. came to Wilmington in 1846, and worked upon a farm until 1855; then engaged in butchering, continuing up to 1863. He was married, December 24, 1863, to Miss Eliza A. SHANK. She was born in Marion County, Ind., August 18, 1838, and one child, Belle, now Mrs. JOHNSON, was born to them. In 1864 Mr. H. moved to Ohio, kept hotel was city weighmaster, and bought hay for the Government. He returned to Wilmington, May 11, 1866, and butchered up to 1868; then went into the sewing machine business. January 11, 1871, he engaged in his present business, and has succeeded very well in the undertaking. His estimable wife was appointed postmistress at Wilmington in 1882. The entire family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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W.C. HENRY, M.D., physician and surgeon, Aurora, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, February 1, 1841, and is of Scotch-Irish extraction; his ancestors settled in the United States early in the history of the country. During his boyhood he attended the public school, where he acquired a knowledge of the usual English branches, including the higher mathematics, and also studied Greek and Latin, besides paying some attention to elementary anatomy, with a view to entering the medical profession. At the age of twenty-one he left school and enlisted for three years as a private in Company A, One Hundred and Twentieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was soon promoted to the rank of sergeant, and participated in Grant's campaign against Vicksburg and its approaches, until after the fall of the place in 1863. While in the army, his health having become impaired, he was sent home on sick leave, at the expiration of which he reported at Indianapolis, and was detailed to hospital duty, in which he was engaged during the remainder of his term of service. While thus employed he gave special attention to his duties, with the view of making the profession of medicine his vocation in life, and on leaving the service immediately entered the Vermillion Institute at Hayesville, Ohio. There he pursued a preparatory course for two years, after which he studied medicine with Drs. Baker and Barret, of Wooster, Ohio. Subsequently he attended two courses of lectures at the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, where he graduated in 1870. He first practiced at Tipton, Mo., about eighteen months, and then removed to Aurora, Ind., where he has since been one of the most successful physicians. His course of study included special instruction on treatment of diseases of the eye and ear, under Dr. E. Williams, and he has since given much attention to this branch of the profession. During the prevalence of the epidemic in the State in 1874, Dr. HENRY contributed a valuable paper on trichinæ to local journals, which attracted much attention at the time and was favorably commented on by the profession generally. Immediately after his graduation in 1870 he married Miss Kate LINDSAY, daughter of John F. LINDSAY, contractor and builder of Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. HENRY enjoys the confidence and esteem of the public as a skillful and painstaking physician. He is an active member of Dearborn County Medical Society and of the Indiana State Medical Society, having been for the past five years secretary of the former body. He is also city physician of Aurora, surgeon, by appointment, of the eastern division of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad, and has been for two years member of the city council, in which he takes an active and prominent place. In politics Dr. Henry is a democrat. He is a member of Dearborn Lodge No. 442, F. & A.M.; Aurora Chapter No. 13, and Aurora Commandery No. 17, K. T., also K. of H., in which he is dictator of his lodge. He is an active member and elder in the Presbyterian Church.

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ALBERT HEUCK, farmer, Kelso Township, was born in Bavaria, Germany, June 6, 1817. His parents were Herman H. and Rosanna (GRANE) HEUCK, natives of Germany and France. They were the parents of six children: William, Henriette, Justine, Babette, Adaline, and Albert, our subject, the next to the youngest member of the family. He immigrated to Dearborn County, Ind., in 1839, and shortly afterward went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked in a store. In 1842 he returned to Dearborn County, and was here married, December 23, 1842 to Elizabeth PROBST, who was born in Germany, January 17, 1826 and was a daughter of John G. and Margaret (NUSS) PROBST. After his marriage he engaged in farming one year, and then removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he again worked in a store for some time, and subsequently removed to Dearborn County, and from here to Harding County, Ill.; returned later and settled on his present farm, where he has since resided. He has had born to him eighteen children, viz: Louisa (deceased), Amelia, Karl W. (deceased), Josephine, Catherine, Magdalena F., Adaline, Emma, Louisa, Elizabeth (deceased), William E., Wilhelmina (deceased), John A., Rosina, George L. (deceased), Charles H., Ludwig H. (deceased) and George P. (deceased). Mr. HEUCK was elected trustee of Kelso Township in 1856, and held the office two years, after which he was again elected in 1860, and held the office for a number of years afterward.

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THOMAS HIBBERT, foreman freight department Ohio & Mississippi shops, Cochran, is a native of England, born in county of Lancashire August 9, 1829, and received a very limited education. His father, Joseph, was born in 1796, and mother, Nannie HARDMAN, were also of English birth. They came to America in July, 1854, and located at Taunton, Mass, where he followed the trade of a hatter up to his death in 1874. Thomas worked in a cotton mill at Taunton until 1855, then went to Philadelphia, where he worked in Diston Saw Works. In 1856 he returned to Massachusetts, and worked in woolen mills at North Deighton until July, 1857, at which date he removed to Aurora, Ind., and began working for the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad as a carpenter on car work. In 1862 he was promoted to foreman of shops in freight department, which position he has since filled with entire satisfaction to the company. He was married, August 8, 1852, to Miss Sarah SCHOFIELD. She was born in Feilsworth, England, September 10, 1828. seven children have been born to them: Stamford, born December 5, 1853, died July, 1854; Emma born March 17, 1856; Melanctham, born March 25, 1858, died August 14, 1859; Angelo, born March 21, 1860; Agnes, born August 14, 1863 (deceased); Edith, born August 2, 1864; Cora, born August 21, 1869. He is a Master Mason, and member of Aurora Lodge No. 51. Also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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CAPT. JOHN C. HIBBITS, insurance agent, Lawrenceburgh, is a native of Dearborn County, born on the homestead farm in Lawrenceburgh Township, July 18, 1834. His parents were John and Susan (RIDINGER) HIBBITS, of Welsh and Scotch-German extraction. James HIBBITS was born in Delaware, and in 1804 came as far West as Cincinnati on a trading expedition from Pittsburgh, then a single man. He subsequently married Susan RIDINGER who was a native of Ohio. In 1814 or 1815, James and family located in Dearborn County, stopping for a year or two near the hamlet of Hardinsburgh (often called Hardintown), then settled on a tract of land in Section 8, of the Reese purchase, where he resided the rest of his life, occupied principally as a farmer, though by trade he was a cooper. He was a man of intelligence, and a respected and esteemed citizen. His death occurred on the homestead in 1863. His widow survived him a number of years and died in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1879. John C. grew up on the farm, received such schooling as the country schools of his neighborhood afforded; then he was sent to Moore's Hill College where he completed his education, and was for a number of years engaged in teaching in the counties of Jefferson and Dearborn. August, 1861, he enlisted as a private soldier in Company F, Thirty-fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served throughout the entire struggle, having been with the army in the Department of Cumberland, and participating in all of the engagements of his regiment, beginning with Stone River and closing with the fall of Atlanta, and also taking part in the battles of Franklin and Nashville, Tenn., in all of which he bore an honorable part, and rose to the rank of captain. He was promoted to second lieutenant and captain, commanding Companies A., F. and D. of his regiment, and let the assault at Lookout Mountain, being in command of the three companies. He received several slight wounds. On his return from the United States service, Capt HIBBITS accepted the agency at Lawrenceburgh of the Merchant Union Express, and later of the American and Adams Express Companies, the business of which he conducted until 1879. Since which time he has been engaged in a general insurance business. May 23, 1878 he was united in marriage with Mrs. A.G. BROADWELL. Capt. HIBBITS is a member of the Episcopal Church, is identified with the G.A.R., and with the Masonic Order. In politics he is a Republican.

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ADAM K. HILL, farmer and wharf boatman, Aurora, was born in Manchester Township, December 27, 1848, and completed his education at Moore's Hill College. His father, Abram HILL, was born in Lawrenceburgh Township, November 10, 1821, where he received a common school education, and farmed for a livelihood. He was married, February 26, 1846, to Miss Manerva KERR. SHe was born in Hogan Township, September 3, 1824, and to them were born nine children: Amanda, October 13, 1847; Adam K., December 27, 1848; Milton V., December 22, 1850; Harry B., September 30, 1852; Alice, February 25, 1856; Altha, November 20,1858; Mary E., December 27, 1860; Lewis W., August 16, 1862; Jennie, July 8, 1867. In 1861 Mr. HILL enlisted in Company K, Twenty-sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and served one year as first lieutenant; after which he re-enlisted in 1862, in the Seventh Cavalry, and served nineteen months as first Lieutenant, and was promoted to captain, and served eleven months in that capacity. In 1864 he received a slight flesh wound in the wrist, but participated in nineteen severe fights with his regiment, without another scratch. In 1874 he took charge of the wharf-boat in Aurora. The business increased so, that in 18777 he was compelled to move to the city, which would enable him to handle the business more successfully. He is a member of Wilmington Lodge No. 158, F. & A.M. and the G.A.R. His estimable wife is a faithful member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. OUr subject was raised a farmer and was married February, 1872 to Miss Ella S. WORLEY, daughter of Francis WORLEY. She was born September 27, 1851, in Center Township, and to them has been born one child, Gracie G. (July 15, 1874) Mr. HILL is a member of Dearborn Lodge No. 442, F.&A.M. He has been in the stock trade for many years with his father, and is connected with the wharf-boat interests, buying hay and grain and running delivery. The firm has facilities, which enable them to deliver merchandise promptly in any part of the city. In 1884 Mr. A.K HILL was chairman of the county Republican Central Committee, and has always been an active, working Republican.

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EDWIN A. HILLMAN, merchant, Lawrenceburgh, is a native of Birmingham, England, born in 1842. His father, John HILLMAN, was a locomotive builder in England, married there Ann RUBOTOM and in 1851, immigrated to the United States. the family located at Metamora, Ind., where Mr. HILLMAN engaged in the milling and mercantile business. In 1867 he moved to Lawrenceburgh where he resided till his death in 1881. Mrs. HILLMAN passed away in 1876. E. A. HILLMAN was about nine years of age when he arrived in America. He grew to manhood with his parents at Metamora, and in 1862 enlisted in Company C, Sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and entered the war, serving about three years, taking part in the battles of Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Nashville, and other minor engagements, and receiving an honorable discharge in June, 1865. After the war he returned to Metamora from which point he moved to Lawrenceburgh in 1867, and engaged in various lines of business till 1872, when he began the glassware and queensware trade in which he is now engaged. In his business enterprises Mr. HILLMAN has been quite successful. He was married, in 1868, to Roselia M. RANSOM, daughter of Daniel RANSOM, of York State, and they have four children: Anna, Mary, Edwin and Emma. The two eldest daughter with Mr. and Mrs. HILLMAN, are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. HILLMAN is a member of the G.A.R. and a reliable business man.

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REIZEN HINDS, farmer, Sparta Township, was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, January 29,1818. His parents were Benjamin and Elizabeth (HASH) HINDS, natives of Maryland and Pennsylvania, respectively. They were united in marriage, in Washington County, Penn., and from thence, about 1812, moved to Ohio, settling near what is known as Seven-Mile, where he purchased land and remained until after the close of the war of 1812, and then moved to Hamilton County, Ohio, where he remained until 1825, at which time he moved to Dearborn County, Ind., entering land and settling in Sparta Township, Section 14, where he afterward resided until death. He was among the early settlers in that vicinity, and well understood the hardships and inconveniences of a pioneer life. He was highly respected by all who knew him. He died August 5, 1835, mourned by many friends. He was twice married and was the father of thirteen children, viz: Elizabeth, Ann, Mary, James, Sarah, John, Henry, Reizen, Emily, Jane and three who died in infancy. Reizen, our subject, was married in Sparta Township December 3, 1837, to Mary, daughter of Eben and Sarah (STREETER) HEATON. She was born in Dearborn County September 29, 1819. After his marriage he settled on the same farm on which he now lives, and has since resided. He has had born to him thirteen children, viz: Benjamin, Sarah E., Harriet L., Mary J. (deceased), Julia, Rachel A. (deceased), Melissa M., William F., Emma E., Margaret A., Thomas J., Charles E. and Flora B. Mr. HINDS and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is also a member of the Masonic Order. He held the office of township trustee in 1844-45.

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C. A. H. HITZFELD, cabinet-maker, Lawrenceburgh City, was born in Bremen, Germany, September 30, 1819. He is a son of Jürgen H. HITZFELD, and was reared to maturity in his native country, where he learned the cabinet trade. In 1840 he immigrated to America to view the prospects, and three years later returned to Germany, coming again to this country with his parents about two years later. The family located at Fort Wayne, where Mr. HITZFELD resided till 1850 , when he moved to Cincinnati. One year later he came to Lawrenceburgh and here he has since been employed, chiefly in the carpenter's trade. From 18555 to 1860 was engaged in factory work; built the German Methodist Church and Lutheran Church, and many other edifices in Lawrenceburgh. In 1849 Mr. HITZFELD married Caroline HORNBERGER, daughter of Nicholas HORNBERGER, and four of their seven children are living: Mary, Caroline, Louisa A. and George N. Mrs. HITZFELD passed away in the winter of 1885-85, deeply mourned by many friends. Mr. HITZFELD has been a member of the German Methodist Church for fifty years, and is one of Lawrenceburgh's most worthy citizens.

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LOUIS HITZFIELD, proprietor of the HITZFIELD Hotel, Lawrenceburgh, was born in Germany in 1833. He resided in his native country till 1845, having been reared by his grandfather, his mother having died while he was an infant and his father soon after immigrating to this country. Mr. HITZFIELD sailed for America in 1845, and located first at Fort Wayne, Ind., where the majority of the family still reside. At the age of fourteen he left home to carve out a fortune for himself, and about two years later "brought up" in Cincinnati. He spent about three years in the two cities alternately, chiefly engaged in attending store, and in 1857 located in Lawrenceburgh. In 1861 he joined the United States Army and pushed westward to California, remaining in the region of the Territories till 1864. He then returned to Cincinnati, clerked a few months in a wholesale grocery store, spent a few months in Memphis, and in February, 1865, returned to Lawrenceburgh and assumed charge of the HITZFIELD House, which he has since conducted. Mr. HITZFIELD was married, in 1865, to Miss Kate WILKE, daughter of John WILKE, a substantial business man of Aurora at that time. Of their nine children six are still living: Carrie, Anna, Louis, Albert, Charles W. and an infant. The "HITZFIELD House" enjoys a liberal patronage, both regular and transient, its success being largely due to the able assistance rendered its proprietor by his estimable wife and eldest daughter, Carrie.

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GEORGE HODEL, president of the Miami Valley Furniture Manufac turing Company, Lawrenceburgh, was born in 1840. At the age of nineteen years he went to Cincinnati, where he was employed in the banking house of E. G. Burkam till April of 1861, when he enlisted in the Eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry and entered the war seving about four years- one year as hospital steward- taking part in some of the most important battles. He then returned home and soon after assisted in establishing the furniture factory with which he has since been connected.He was also one of the incorporators of the Ohio Valley Coffin Company, and has been in the city council for many years. He ranks among the first of the citizens and business men of Lawrenceburgh. Mr. HODEL was married, in 1867, to Miss Mary E. SHUMAKER, by whom he has three children: Anna C., Charles W. and George F.

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CHARLES H. HOFF, farmer, Jackson Township, born in Cincinnati, July 24, 1836, is a son of Michael and Catharine HOFF, natives of Bavaria Germany. Michael HOFF immigrated to America while a young man; arriving at Cincinnati he remained there some time and worked at his trade, that of a shoe-maker. About 1835 he married, and about 1837 he purchased land in Dearborn County, Ind., near Lawrenceville, where he settled and resided through life. He died March 25, 1882, aged sixty-seven years. His widow still survives and resides on the old home place. They were parents of eleven children, nine now survive: Charles H., John H., Mary E. ( wife of George SCHLICHT), Michael, Mary (wife of John GUTAPPLE), George, Valentine, Louisa (wife of William BLASDELL) and John. Mr. HOFF was quite a prominent citizen and well-known throughout Dearborn COunty. He filled some of the most prominent offices of his township, serving as trustee several years. At the time of his death he was serving in his second term as county commissioner. Under his administrations of the office several important works were constructed, of which were the building of the bridge across Tanner's Creek at Guilford and the erection of the county asylum, each of which evinces creditable management and careful attention of the commissioners in charge. Mr. Charles H. HOFF, the subject of this sketch, and the eldest child of Michael HOFF, has been a resident of Jackson Township forty-eight years. He was married, September 6, 1857, to Harriet BOLSEY, a daughter of George and Harriet BOLSEY, natives of Germany, who became settlers of this county, and died here of cholera during the prevalence of that epidemic in 1849. They had seven children, six now living: Caroline (wife of Henry COPPFA, who resides in Cincinnati), Harriet, George, Elizabeth ( wife of Charles MAYER, who resides in Cincinnati), Lewis and Henry. Mr. HOFF and wife have had fourteen children, twelve now living: Catharine (wife of Frederick HUBER), Mena, (wife of C. S. SPRAGUE), Lewis Lizzie, Charles, Anna, Henry, Louisa, Ida, Albert, Perley, and Lydia. Mr. HOFF has made farming his business through life; has a good farm of eighty acres with good buildings and improvements, and is well known as one of the prominent and reliable citizens of Jackson Township.

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