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��Sept. 15, and landed here one month after, Oct. 15, 1818; they traveled all the way with an ox team. The names of the children are as follows : Di- nah, born May 8, 1816 (she married George Kellogg, April 24, 1834, and lives in Fulton Co., Ohio); Will- iam E., born Feb. 1, 1819 (he was the first white child born in this vicinity ; married Sarah A. Shaw, who died May 1, 18r)l, and he died June 29, 1857); Sam- uel, born Nov. 17, 1821 (married Harriet Richardson, April 9, 1846) ; Wilson, born April 10, 1825 (married, Feb. 3, 1848, to Orlena Richardson ; they had six chil- dren, five of whom are now living) ; .John J., subject of this sketch; Enocif Conger, born Nov. 30, 1831 (he graduated at Mansfield ; was married May 6, 1860, to Martha A. Case, of Bodino, N. Y., and now resides in San .Jose, Cal.; in the mercantile trade) ; Nancy Ma- riah, born March 14, 1835 (she lives with John J.). A brother of Jesse, William W., came to Richland Co. at the same time ; he was born in Ulster Co., N. Y., April 2, 1797 ; they first came here in 1817, and, getting their land, returned to New York, and the next year moved here; he was married May 8, 1823, to Margaret H. Brink ; they had five children ; he died Nov. 11, 1849 ; his widow married James Ralston April 6, 1850; she died April 27, 1868.
BRIGGS, ROBERT, farmer ; P. 0. Plymouth ; was born in Lincolnshire, England, Sept. 1, 1830; the fam- ily landed in Richland Co. when Mr. Briggs was but 3 years of age, and has lived in the county ever since, except one year that he lived in Hardin Co., Ohio, and has seen this country when it was very wild and but very little improvements were then made ; he has grown up with the country ; he now has a very fine farm only a few miles south of Plymouth. Was mar- ried in 1859, to Miss Martha Doty, of Richland Co. ; they have one child, a daughter. When Mr. Briggs' father came here, he had to stand up in the saddle on the back of his horse and tie a knot in the limbs of a tree to mark the place for his farm, as the land was covered with a dense forest.
BRINKERHOFF, JOSIAH, banker. Plymouth ; was born in December, 1815, in Cayuga Co., N. Y.; the family came West in 1834, to Plymouth Township; was raised a farmer, and, some twenty-one years ago, he moved to town. Mr. B. has been one of the prominent men of Plymouth, and ever ready to lend a helping hand to any improvement or enterprise for the benefit of the town or community ; in the spring of 1874, he was elected President of the First National Bank, which position he now holds to the satisfaction of all concerned.
BROWN, OLIVER G., farmer and stock-dealer; P. 0. Shelby ; was born in Virginia, in 1833 ; his father, Mr. James Brown, came with his family to Plymouth in 1885, and from there moved to their pres- ent farm ; there were six girls and two sons, three of the girls having died ; when they bought ihe farm, there was but very little improvement: — only a log house and, perhaps, twenty acres of cleared land, and, by hard work, they have now as fine a farm as there is in this part of the township ; Mr. Oliver G. Brown now is living on the old homestead where he was raised. He was married in 1856 to Miss Elizabeth M. Castor, of Plymouth Township ; soon after their marriage,
��they moved to Iowa, where they resided for nineteen years ; he was engaged in farming and stock-dealing, buying and shipping. In 1876, they came back to their old home, where they are now living; they have five children now living, two sons at Salina, Kan., and one daughter married, and now lives at East Woolf, Russell Co., Kan., and two at home. Mr. James Brown was at one time in business at Shelby : was in the hotel business for about two years, when he went into business as a partner of Mr. Mickey; about the year 1843, he moved back to the old farm, where he has since lived ; Mrs. Brown died Sept. 16, 1869. Mr. Brown and his family are highly respected citizens, and are well known throughout the community. Farm and residence south of Plymouth, on the northwest quarter of Sec. 31, about three miles northwest of Shelby.
BRUBAKEll, J. C, merchant, Plymouth; was born Nov. 26, 1846, in Huron Co., Ohio; lived on the farm until 1869, when he came to Plymouth to attend school, and afterward was engaged as salesman in a groceiy store till April 11, 1874, when he engaged in the business for himself, and has been very successful, and has a trade second to no other est.ablishment of the kind in town. He was married to ^liss Ellen Tyson March 11, 1872; they have three children — Loita, born Sept. 25, 1878; May, April 17, 1876; Anna. Feb. 15, 1878.
CHANNING, J. R., farmer and stock-raiser; P. O. Plymouth ; was born and educated in England, and the family came to this country in 1851, and to Plymouth Township in 1870; he has one of the finest farms lo be found in the county, and the buildings that he is putting up surpass anything of the kind in the county ; he has just completed a barn 42x70 feet, being a bank barn and stabling under the whole of it, and for con- venience and stability is far ahead of his neighbors': when he put the roof on, he would paint each course of shingles with lead and oil, and has consumed in tl)e building eighty-three gallons linseed oil, and l,20i> pounds best white lead ; the whole building is put up in a workmanlike manner, and has cost him not far from $3,000. Mr. Channing is one of the successful men in the county, having made his money by hard and honest labor ; residence and farm on Shiloh road, one and one-half miles south of Plymouth. Was married in October, 1864, to Miss Margaret Fulmer, of Ashland Co., Ohio; they have four children, all boys — W. G., born Sept. 1, 1865; A. J., born April 19, 1867; J. H., born March 28, 1873 ; Edward J., born Nov. 28, 1874.
CLARK, ANDREW, proprietor planing-milland sash, blind and door factory ; was born in 1833, in Connecti- cut ; was raised a farmer ; when 22 years of age, went to California ; he was there engaged in mining for nearly ten years ; in 1869, he moved to Plymouth ; has been engaged in man^lf^^cturing washing machines ; in 1872, Mr. Clark built a planing-mill and sash, door and blind factory ; he also is quite an extensive lumber dealer, and constantly has on hand a good stock of lum- ber, lath, shingles, and everything pertaining to his business. He was married, in 1870, to Miss Margaret Coe, of Ashland Co.; they have two children — Emma Grace, born Nov. 9, 1871 ; Charles Walter, May 28,
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