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��about ten years ago ; Mr. Garber erected a large brick residence on his fixrm in 187-5.

GARBER, .JACKSON L., a son of Samuel Garber, was born in .Teflferson Township, and brought up on a farm; he attended the Bellville High School during the winters of 1860 and 1861 ; the following winter, he taught school, and, during the summer of 1862, traveled in Michigan, Canada West, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Indiana ; he kept a gi'ocery and bakery in Mt. Gilead a part of 186-5 and 1866 ; he sold out and came to Bellville and entered into partnership with Markey & Garber, changing the firm name to Markey, Garber & Co.; he continued this relation till 1867 ; after marriage, he moved to Pierceton, Ind., where he opened a shoe store ; after being there a short time, he had to contend against a severe spell of the typhoid fever, which was followed by ague ; he returned to Ohio in December, 1869, and followed school teaching several years; in the summer of 1871, he visited Florida in search of a home, but without finding a desirable place ; in March, 1873, he moved to ISIissouri, and is now cul- tivating a fruit and vegetable farm in St. Louis Co.; he has taught ten terms of school. ^Ir. Garber was born Jan. 17, 1841 ; Mary E. Rummel, daughter of David J. Rummel, was born in Tiffin, Ohio, Oct. 24, 1847 ; they were married Nov. 24, 1867 ; they have one child — Harley D., who was born Feb. 12, 1879.

GARBER, W. L., was born in Jefferson Township April 12, 1843; he grew up on a farm ; when arriving to manhood, he attended the high school at Bellville a short time; in the winter of 1860-61, he taught school in Knox Co.; he kept a few terms afterward ; he con- tinued to work at farming till 1866, when he formed a partnership with A. .J. Markey and^opened a dry-goods store in Bellville ; they continued doing business a short time under the name of Markey >l!i Garber, and then Jackson Garber entered as a third partner ; the firm dissolved in 1868, and the subject of this sketch went on his father-in-law's farm and cultivated it four years ; Oct. 10, 1872, he embarked as a salesman or wholesale agent for a powder house, at which he is yet engaged, traveling over the south part of Ohio and a portion of Indiana ; he moved his family to Columbus in November, 1872. He was married to Ann Amanda Rummel, daughter of David J. Rummel and Mary Klise, April 7, 1867; she was born June 12, 1841; children— Alberta D., born March 1-5, 1869; Edith Z., Feb. 13, 1872. Mr. Garber and wife are members of the Universalist Church ; he is also a member of the ^Masonic Fraternity.

GARBER, THEODORE ; resides about two and a half miles east of Bellville, on Sec. 18 ; he was born in Jef- ferson Township and brought up on a farm ; he attended school at Bellville a few terms and commenced to teach in the fall of 1864 and taught five terms. He is an active and official member of the Universalist Church. He was a charter member of the Jefferson Grange, in which he has held vai'ious offices ; and an industrious and successful farmer; his house upon bis well-im- proved homestead was built in 1870, and the barn in 1878. Mrs. Garber's maiden name was Martha Celestia Lee, and she is a daughter of Ebenezer Lee and .Jane C. Long ; her parents lived in Wayne Co. at the time of her birth, and removed to Richland Co. in 1852 ; Mr.

��Garber was born Aug. 9, 1845; they were married Oct. 14, 1869; children — Lee, was born -\pril 14, 1871; Elbert Glenn, June 20, 1872; Lloyd M.,in April, 1876; a girl, July 24, 1879; Lee died Sept. 10, 1871. Mrs. Garber is also a member of the Universalist Church and Jefferson Grange.

GARBER, BENTON L., farmer. He was born and brought up in Jefferson Township, and upon a farm ; after attending several terms of high school in Bellville, he taught during the winter of 1871-72. On Oct. 12, 1872, he was married, and for some time resided with his father ; he then purchased some thirty acres adjoin- ing his father's farm, on which he moved and im- proved ; in November, 1879, he again moved on his father's farm ; he was born April 16, 1850; his wife, Lizzie E. Elston, was born June 6, 1854; her birth- place is Provincetown, Mass., from which State her parents came to Bellville in 1855 ; her father was born in England ; their children are Edna, born Aug. 19, 1873 ; Catharine, boi-n Nov. 22, 1875 ; J. Heber, born Nov. 21, 1877. Mr. Garber and wife united with the Universalist Church in 1873 ; they are also charter members of .Jefferson Grange.

GARBER, DAVID, farmer; born in Lancaster Co., Penn., Sept. 26, 1806, and came to Ohio in 1823 ; he worked at the shoe trade some when young. He mar- ried Eve Kusard in the fall of 1827 ; she was born April 7, 1806, and came from Pennsylvania with Daniel Hetrick ; Mr. Garber's firstinvestment in real estate was made in Worthington Township, where he bought 70 acres and paid for it out of earnings made with a hoe and ax; after marriage, he moved the first time on a one-horse sled ; they were fortunate enough to have a bed, a knife and a fork apiece, but no chairs or table ; blocks of trees served as chairs, and an old chest as a table; he is now well fixed; the greater number of their children are dead ; the living are Sarah, born Feb. 20, 1833; Samuel K., born March 21, 1842: Susan, born July 29, 1845.

GARBER, SAMUEL K., farmer, was born in Jeffer- son Township March 22, 1842. He was married to Eunice Carpenter, in Crestline, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1863 ; she was born Sept. 16, 1841 ; her parents came to Holmes Co., this State, from New York, and lived but a short time afterward, and she was brought up by Hugh Oldfield, living near Crestline. She united with the Baptist Church early in life, and from that she received letters to the Evangelical Church, of which she is yet a communicant; Mr. Garber is a member of the Univer- salist Church, to which he united in the fall of 1870 ; he was also a charter member of the Jefferson Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry. Children — Mary Celinda was born May 5, 1865; David Oliver, born July 28, 1868 ; an infant born and died in 1875.

GEDDES, JOHN W. He commenced life as a brick- maker and teamster ; in 1852-53, he filled the position of an engineer in Indiana. He married Elizabeth Zent Nov. 3, 1855, and then went to Noble Co., Ind., where they commenced to keep house, and he purchased a share in a steam saw-mill, after managing a farm one year ; he retained his interest in the mill about three years, and then went to farming ; after giving this his attention for about thirteen years, he then returned to Richland Co., and in 1876 he bought a part of Sec. 22,

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