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Title: A twentieth century history of Hardin County, Ohio : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and principal interests,
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Kohler, Minnie Ichler
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Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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farm, located in Marionand Roundhead townships. He is a man of strong mentality and muchadministrative ability and has served in various positions of distinctivetrust and responsibility—a preferment indicating the high esteem inwhich he is held in the community where he has long lived and laboredto goodly ends. Mr. Dunlap finds a due measure of satisfaction in reverting to thefine old Buckeye state as the place of his nativity, and the name whichhe bears has been identified with the annals of this favored common-wealth for more than three-fourths of a century. He was born inWeathersfield township. Trumbull county, Ohio, on the 2d of March,1835, and is a son of John A. and Susanna (Mulholland) Dunlap, bothnatives of Ireland, where they were reared to maturity and where theirmarriage was solemnized, the father having been born in the year 1800.In 1832 they immigrated to America, and their first child, the only oneborn in the Emerald Isle, died on the voyage, being buried at sea. Soon
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HISTORY OF HARDIN COUNTY 461 after their arrival in the United States they came to Ohio and took uptheir residence in Trumbull county, where the father followed farminguntil 1844, when he removed with his family to Hardin county andpurchased a tract of land in Marion township, where he reclaimed aproductive farm and passed the residue of his life, an honest, earnestand industrious citizen and one who ever commanded the high regardof all who knew him. He died in 1882 and his devoted wife and help-meet passed away in 1868, both having been members of the MethodistEpiscopal church. They became the parents of five children, of whomfour attained to years of maturity and of whom three are living.Joseph A. sacrificed his life in the service of his country, having enlistedin June 1861, in response to President Lincolns first call, as a memberof Company H. Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and having beenkilled in the sanguinary battle of Stones River. Of the three livingchildren the subject

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