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��Mr. Farmer was married, Oct. 8, 1874, to Barbara A. Hannan, by whom he has three children.

FAUS, HENRY,. traveling agent. He was born in Columbia Co., Penn., March 31, 1837 ; came to Ohio in 1852. Was married April 14, 1863, to Lodema C. Zent ; she was born Sept. 3, 1841, in Richland Co.; they have the following family : Lorena F., born .June 8, 1864 ; Delia B., Oct. 8, 1865; Charlie J., Sept. 8, 1866; Wardie B., Sept. 8, 1867.

FINFROCK, .J. H., physician; was born in Colum- biana Co., Ohio; came to Richland Co. in 1836; read medicine with Dr. John Blecker, of Van Wert, Ohio ; graduated at Cincinnati in the Medical College. En- listed during the war ; was promoted Captain of Co. F, 6th 0. V. I.; served in that position till he was ap- pointed Assistant Surgeon of the 11th 0. V. C; was stationed in Dakota Territory. After his service in the army, he located in Laramie City, Wyoming Territory, where he is engaged in the practice of medicine.

FINFROCK, M. V. B., druggist; son of .Jonathan Finfrock ; was born in 1838 in Madison Township. Was married in 1864 to Lydia E. Keller; they have three children — Ira Elmer, Emma May and Grace Maud. Mr. Finfrock was engaged in teaching school for some years ; then located in Mansfield in the drug business ; has been very successful, and is now leading off in this department ; has also been taking a very active part as Councilman for two years ; he is now a member and Treasurer of the School Board of the city of Mansfield, and doing all he can to raise the standard of education.

FISHER, .JOHN, sewing-machine agent ; was born March 27, 1849, in Cumberland, Md. His father and mother are now and have been old residents of that locality, dating back fifty-three years. Mr. Fisher came to Mansfield Dec. 24, 1879, and is now engaged in act- ive business. He was married Feb. 10, 1872, in Cum- berland, Md., to Anna M. Wolf; they have three chil- dren — two boys and one girl. Charles Fisher emi- grated from Germany and settled in Cumberland, Md., about the year 1827. John Fisher was the eighth son. About thirteen years previous to his arrival in Mansfield, he was employed on railroads in different positions ; at present a resident of the Fourth Ward.

FLANNERY, B., keeper of boarding-house; he was born in Ireland, in the year 1838, the first son of Mathew and Margaret Flannery ; he emigrated to America in May, 1863, and landed in New York City, where he was employed in a tea and coffee house for three years, when he removed to the oil regions of Pennsylvania, where he remained two years before coming to Mansfield. He was married in this city, Dec. 16, 1868, to Miss Mary Hogan. During his resi- dence here, he has been prominent in local politics, and has been a delegate to a number of important con- ventions,, and is one of our active citizens. Mr. Flan- nery comes from a respectable family in the old country, where they held high ofiices in Church and State.

FORD, JOHN, deceased ; he was born in Harrison Co., Ohio, in 1816. His parents removed to this county when he was quite young, and settled in Clear Creek Township, now in Ashland Co., where he assisted in clearing the land and worked on the farm until his re- moval to Washington Township with a brother ; he

��there cleared the land since known as the Hunter farm, and afterward purchased the farm south of Washington Village, where he lived for many years, well known by the citizens of the county and respected for his many good qualities of head and heart. He was married to Miss Harriet Barnes, of Washington Township, Aug. 16,1838; they were the parents of eight children — four sons and four daughters ; three sons and one daughter reside in Mansfield ; one son is a farmer in Washington Township ; Mary Ellen Ford, born Aug. 21, 1839, died Feb. 28, 1863; Phebe, born July 28, 1849, died Aug. 11,1851; Ada, born April 27, 1860, died Sept. 26, 1874. Mr. Ford removed to Mansfield in May, 1872, where he was engaged in business with his sons, and resided until his death, which occurred Feb. 25, 1876. Mrs. Harriet Barnes Ford died in Mansfield Oct. 27, 1874.

FORD, THOMAS H. (deceased). Ex-Gov. Ford was born in Rockingham Co., Va. Aug. 23, 1814. His parents soon after removed to Harrison Co. Ohio, where they lived a few years, removing to Clear Creek Town- ship, Ashland Co., then a part of this county; here Mr. Ford died, leaving a large family, some of whom were grown. Thomas Ford grew to maturity here, getting little if any education in the district schools, obtaining the principal part by the light of a burning stump or the fire-place. After reaching his majority, he married a Miss Hall, and for some time was engaged on a farm; this pursuit, however, did not favor him, and consequently he did not make a success : his wife died here, as well as all her children — the latter while in their infancy. Mr. Ford was again married to Mary Ann Andrews, and not long after gave up farming and came to Mansfield to engage in the study of law, enter- ing the ofiice of .James Purdy, Esq.; while here, in 1851, his second wife died, leaving him three boys — - Thomas H. who died in 1873, in the city ; P. P. H., who is yet a resident of Mansfield, and W. A. who, when his mother died, was 18 months old, and who was given by her to Mrs. John Bright (sister of Mr. Ford) to raise ; he is now in California. Mr. Ford was mar- ried the third time to Harriet M. Pantlind, who became the mother of one child, Ada, who is married and liv- ing in Washington City, and with whom her mother now lives. After Mr. Ford completed a law course, he was admitted to practice, and, at different times, was partner of P. P. Hull, Oliver P. Gray, William Long- bridge, AVilliam Tidball, H. P. Davis, R. C. Smith,

Boales, Judge Dirlam and others. When the Repub- lican party came into existence, he was one of its most eloquent exponents, and, while engaged in politics, de- livered at Philadelphia, a speech that made his name famous ; it was one of those speeches given impromptu, (he never studied a speech) which the occasion calls out, and is rarely repeated ; it gained him the Lieu- tenant Governor's place under Gov. Chase, and brought him prominently forward in after life ; at the expiration of his term of office, he returned to Mansfield to the practice of law, though he was always active in poli- tics. When the war with Mexico broke out, he en- listed, and raised a company which saw one year's serv- ice ; its history is given elsewhere ; while in this war, he was wounded ; when the last war broke out, ex-Gov. Ford raised the 32d 0. V. I. and was its Colonel ; the

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