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��daughter of Isaac and Jane Harcourt, who came to Richland Co. (in what is now Ashland Co.) in an early day; she is the seventh of a family of eight children. She was married in the spring of 1845, to William Beat- tie (who died in 1878), who was born in Scotland, and came to this country about 18o5 or 1836; after their marriage, they settled on the present farm ; Mrs. Beattie has three children — Olivia, Isaac C. and James A.

BEVERIDGE, WILLIAM, farmer, P. 0. Adario ; he was born in Scotland May 18, 1838 ; he is a son of James and Sarah Beveridge, who came to this country and State in 1843. They first settled in the north part of Butler Township, where they lived about six months, and then bought where the subject of this sketch liveS) where they spent the rest of their days. The subject of this sketch is the sixth of a family of eight children ; he lived at home until the fall of 1862, when he enlisted in the 20th 0. V. I., in the war of the rebellion ; he served about ten months, and then came home and settled on the old homestead, where he still resides.

BROKAW, RUNYAN, farmer; P. 0. Adario; he was born in Essex Co., N. J., March 27, 1829 ; he is a son of Christian and Margaret Brokaw, and is the eighth of a family of eleven children. He remained at home until he was married, in 1853, to INIary McCan, . who died in 1861. He lived on the old homestead about three years after his marriage, and then sold out and went to Illinois, where he stayed about two years ; he then went back to Pennsylvania, and took charge of a gang of men on the broad-gauge railroad that was in the course of construction, and worked at that until December, 1863, when he went to Nashville, Tenn., and worked on the Government works there about twelve months. In 1865, he was married to Martha Osburn, who died in 1867. After he came back from Tennessee, he lived in different parts of the county until 1870, when he bought where he now resides. He has been married eleven years to Jenny Hawt ; he has five children, whose names are Lilly, William, Georgiana, George R and Mary J.

BROWN, GIFFORD, farmer; P. 0. Adario; he was born in Carroll Co., Ohio, Sept. 15, 1854, and is a son of Norwell and Nancy Brown, who were<¥ormerly of Virginia. He is the fifth of a family of six children. He remained at home until he was married in the spring of 1878, to Mattie Cox, of Columbiana Co., Ohio. After his marriage he settled in Harrison Co., Ohio, where he lived one year, and in the summer of 1879 he moved to Richland Co., and is at present living three-quarters of a mile west of Adario. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have one child, Pearl May.

CHURCH, JAMES, farmer; P. 0. Olivesburg ; he was born in Virginia, in 1793 ; when he was about 7 years old, his parents moved to Wetzel Co., W. Va.; his father, Henry Church, was an English soldier un- der Lord Cornwallis in the Revolutionary struggle, and was taken prisoner by the Light Horse Cavalry while he and some others were out on a foraging expedition ; he took the oath of allegiance and joined the American cause; he lived to be 109 years old. The subject of this sketch remained at home until he was married, Oct. 3, 1813, to Susanna Helms, of Pennsylvania; after his marriage, he settled in Virginia, where he

��lived about five years, and then moved, with his wife and two children, to the present site of Windsor, in Mifflin Township, where he lived about one year ; he then bought a tract of land of Ebenezer Williams, which he improved seven years, and then sold out and bought where he now resides, in 1831 ; he cleared the land, which was very heavily timbered ; Mr. Church can recall many of the hardships and privations of early pioneer life. Mr. and Mrs. Church have raised eight children, five of wliom are dead; he has one daughter at home yet — Sarah A., who is in her 52d year, and one Mrs. A. J. McCloy, a resident of Mans- field.

CLABERG, ISAAC, farmer; P. 0. Adario; he was born in this county May 12, 1822; his parents came to this county from Fairfield Co., in 1816, and bought the tract of land where Mr. Claberg now resides ; they moved into the woods and put up a shanty to live in until they could build themselves a cabin, after which they went to clearing ofl" the timber, which consisted principally of oak, beech and sugar. The subject of this sketch lived at home until he was 37 years old, when he married Harriett Porter, of Butler Township ; her parents came to this county from Pennsylvania about 1835 ; Mr. and Mrs. Claberg have two boys, who are 15 and 17 years old. Mr. Claberg has done a good deal of hard work in his time, and has helped to clear a good many acres of land ; he is an industrious and thriving farmer, who believes in living up to the times. He has been hanored with the office of Township Treas- urer, and other minor offices in the township ; he is in his 58th year, and bids fair to live many years yet.

CLABERG, JACOB, farmer; P. 0. Adario; he was born March 11, 1814, in Fairfield Co., Ohio, and is a son of Abraham and Mary Claberg, who came to this county in the spring of 1816 ; they were the second family that settled in the present boundaries of Butler Township ; Abraham entered the first land that was entered in the township, but did not move until some time after. The subject of this sketch is the eldest of a a family of seven children ; he remained at home until he was married, in the fall of 1839, to Elizabeth Urich, of Ashland Co.; she died in 1840, and in the spring of 1845, he married Susanna Sneer, who was born Oct. 14, 1819, in what is now Butler Township ; after his marriage, he settled on the present farm, which his father had entered some time before. Mr. Claberg has held some of the minor offices in the township, and is at present one of the Commissioners of the county ; his chances for an education were very limited, as schools were scarce in his day ; he can remember many incidents and privations of pioneer life, and is respected and honored by all who know him. Mr. and Mrs. Claberg have five children — William L., Isaac N., E. M., T. J. and Mary E. ; E. M. is yet at home.

CLINE, CURTIS, farmer ; P. 0. Shenandoah ; he was born in Richland Co. Dec. 24, 1847 ; he is a son of Alfred and Julia E. Cline, of this county; he lived at home until he was 12 years old, when, his mother dying, he left home and followed farming a few years, and then he went to work in a saw-mill, where he stayed about nine years. He was married in February, 1868, to Elizabeth Smith, of this county, who died July 4, 1872 ; he afterward married Margaret Stober, of this

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