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��years. He was married a second time, to Sarah Sheely, in .Tune, 1837, who had six children, viz.: Rebecca J. Beelman, living at home ; Henry A. Beel- man, now in Michigan ; Ann A., married to William Douglas, lives in Shiloh ; Emma A., married to La Fayette Davis, lives at home ; Charles and Edward, in Michigan. Mrs. Rebecca Sheely, mother of Mrs. Beel- man, now lives with her daughter ; she was 8-5 years old Nov. 18, 1879.

BEVIER, LEWIS, farmer and stock-raiser; he was born in Richland Co., Ohio, Jan. 31, 1825 ; his father, Andries Bevier, came from Cayuga Co., N. Y., town of Owasco, in the year 1824, and settled on the farm on which his son now lives ; the farm at the time was but little improved, having about 10 acres cleared. The subject of this sketch spent his young days on the farm with his father, and, after his father's death, which was in February, cl 846, he and his brother, Jeremiah E. Bevier. took the farm and kept the family together on the old homestead ; he bought out the heirs as they be- came of age ; he came in full possession of the farm in the fall of 1858, and has put the principal part of the buildings on the farm and has it under a good state of cultivation. His father came to Ohio with his family in a two-horse wagon, and endured all the hardships of a new country ; had to go many miles to market, but by industry and economy he succeeded in making for himself and family a comfortable home. Lewis was married to Miss Amanda Condon Jan. 18, 1859; they have had four children, three of whom are living and one dead; .John P. was born Aug. 24, 1860; Annie Annette, June 21, 1862; Fredric Lewis, Oct. 2, 1864. BRIGGS, MARIA, widow of AVilliam Briggs, was born in Lincolnshire, England, Oct. 2, 1829, and emi- grated to America in 1849. Was married to William Briggs March 23, 1854. William Briggs was born in Lincolnshire, England, March 31, 1823, and emigra,ted to America with his father, he coming while William was young: settled in Richland Co., Plymouth, now Cass Township, and was one of the pioneers. William Briggs died May 22, 1868; had one child— William R. Briggs, born June 2, 1863. The subject of this sketch deserves much praise, as she has taken care of the farm and raised her boy almost to manhood and has been successful to a marked degree.

BUSHEY, JACOB, farmer and stock-raiser; he was born in Cumberland Co., Penn., Oct. 6, 1824, and came to Ohio with his father, who emigrated with his family in 1835; he remained with his father helping him to clear up the farm until he was 16 years of age, when he learned the carpenter trade with his father and worked at it most of the time for nineteen years, and then worked at the saw-mill business some nine years ; he sold out to his partner, S. Wentz ; he bought the farm he now lives on in 1860 ; moved to it the fol- lowing year ; remained nine years, then moved to Lon- don ; lived there eight years, following his trade, and again, in 1878, he moved on the farm where he now lives. Was married to ^liss Elizabeth Fireoved Nov. 25, 1845 ; they have nine children, all of whom are living, showing that they have inherited the sound con- stitution of their parents ; in fact, it is remarkable to see a family of so many and all living and enjoying excellent health.

��CRAWFORD, T. &. J. & CO. (Taylor Crawford, John Crawford and Porter Crawford), millers and proprietors of Shiloh Steam Flouring, Saw and Planing Mills, were born in Huron Co., Ohio ; they moved to Richland Co., Ohio, when they were boys; they were all raised on a farm and received their education in the common schools of the county. Taylor Crawford was born Nov. 28, 1846; John Crawford, Sept. 19, 1848; Porter Craw- ford, Dec. 20, 1853. Taylor and his brother John, see- ing an opening for a flouring-mill in Shiloh, purchased the ground and built the present mill in the fall of 1872; they cai-ried it on for ten years; they then traded it for land in Huron Co.; they purchased the saw-mill at Shiloh and removed it to the flouring-mill furnishing power for the mill ; in the mean time they took in their brother Porter as partner ; in the fall of 1878, they purchased the flouring-mill, since which time they have been doing business under the firm name of T. & J. Crawford & Co.

CLOWES, JOHN Q. A., M. D.; born in Allegheny Co., Penn., May 18, 1845. His mother was of Irish and his father of French extraction. He spent his boyhood days with his father in the cabinet-shop, going to school in the winter, and reading medicine and phrenology at intervals, and often gave lectures to his school com- panions on the science of the mind ; his father and mother dying when he was about 17 years old, he then devoted his entire time to the study of the "healing art," first with B. F. Reynolds, M. D., of Harmarville, Penn., then with Dr. G. F. Jacoby, Jr., of Pittsburgh, Penn., attending the St. Franciscus Hospital, and did all the dispensing of the hospital and Dr. Jacoby's private practice, and often, as the Doctor said, won laurels for himself in dispensing physic ; in the fall of 1867, he attended his first course of lectures at the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery ; the following spring of 1868, he returned from Philadel- phia to the city of Pittsburgh, and resumed the study of medicine with Dr. Jacoby, and again, in the foUovy- ing fall, he returned to Philadelphia and attended his second course of lectures, and graduated on the 23d of February, 1869 ; he also, while attending lectures, was a constant attendant at the Blockley Hospital, of West Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Hospital Clinics ; after graduating, he returned to his former home at Harmarville, and remained until June, 1869 ; got the Western emigration fever, and went West as far as Bloomington, 111., and stopped a few days at Normal, 111.; but not being impressed with the idea of success, considering the climate of Illinois, he returned East to Ohio, landing in the city of Mansfield on the morning of the 3d of July, 1869 ; started on foot for the north part of the county, stopping frequently at farmers' houses, making inquiries what the prospect would be for a harvest hand, but, taking his dimensions and his general appearance, the farmer's reply would invari- ably be, " We don't want hands at the present;" that evening found him at the hotel at Olivesburg, supper ordered and lodging for the night; next morning, walked to Rome, Ohio, and located there for six months, and became discouraged at not making more than a living practice ; he sought a new field in the eastern part of this State; dissatisfied with the prospects, re- turned to Rome, and thence to Dunkirk, Ohio ; worse

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