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CLARK, ELI, farmer, and owns a saw-mill ; P. 0. Plymouth ; was born in 1824, in Connecticut ; in the spring of 1846, the family came to Plymouth Township ; they purchased a farm that was somewhat improved, but, generally speaking, it was very wild. His farm lies about three miles southwest of Plymouth. In 1848, he purchased the first saw-mill that was brought into the country. It was brought here during the building of the railroad ; after the road was built, ]\Ir. Clark bought the mill, and moved it to his farm, about four miles south of Plymouth. He has remodeled and re- built it, until it is all of modern style and improve- ments, and turns out work second to none. Was mar- ried, in 1850, to Miss BoUes, of Connecticut ; they have three sons. His father bought the farm where Mr. Clark now lives, where he resided till his death, which occurred in 1871. His sous, Eli and John, bought the farm.

DRONBERGER, L. R., druggist's traveling salesman, Plymouth ; was born Feb. 18, 1850, in Homer, Medina Co., Ohio. Mr. E. Dronberger, his father, moved to Richland Co. in the spring of 1853 ; bought a farm in the northwest corner of Plymouth Township, where the family lived till April, 1870, when they moved to Plymouth and engaged in the drug business, under the firm name of E. Dronberger & Son, where they did a profitable business and had a trade second to no other establishment of the kind in the town; in May, 1873, they met with a severe loss by fire, which consumed nearly everything they had ; not long after the fire, Mr. L. R. Dronberger moved to Newark, Ohio, where they again purchased a stock of drugs and medicines and ran business for some time ; when they sold out their business, he moved to Flint, Mich., and was en- gaged as head clerk in a large retail drug and prescrip- tion store for a year or more, when he engaged to a wholesale drug house of Detroit as traveling salesman, and has continued in this business for the past three years with marked saccess, as he makes many friends wherever he goes ; he has made several changes in em- ployers, and every time for the better, and now is with a New York firm, and he holds a good and increasing trade for himself and employers by his general good- will and manliness. Was married, June 10, 1873, to Miss Frank Gunsaullus, of Plymouth.

FACKLER, Dr. J. M., homoeopathic physician, Ply- mouth ; was born in Weller Township, Richland Co., Ohio, April 7, 1838 ; raised a farmer until he com- menced the study of medicine ; attended the schools of Haysville, Ohio, and Academy of Savannah, Ohio ; commenced the study of medicine in 1859 ; attended the Cleveland Homoeopathic Medical College in 1863-64; received the degree of M. D. at the Pulte Homoeopathic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1877 ; he has been practicing medicine for seventeen years, with marked success, and the last ten years at Plymouth ; the doctor fully understands his profession, and is regarded throughout the country as one of the best, and has a large and inci-easing practice, so much so that he was compelled to take a partner, and both are now kept busy. He was married to Miss Martha N. Fancher in 1862 ; they had two children— Nellie,

��born July 28, 1864; Clauda Blanche, May 28, 1873; died Dec. 12, 1878.

DRENNAN, JAMES (deceased); he was born in Carlisle, Penn., Feb. 18, 1783. When about 4 years of age, his father, David Drennan, moved from Carlisle to Beaver Co, making the journey across the mountains with pack-horses. Mrs. D. carried James on her knee, while she rode a horse. His father became Judge of Common Pleas Court there, and lived there until his death. When James was about 17 years of age, he was bound out to a cabinet-maker to learn the trade. After serving three years, he bought his time on credit of his master, and came to Stfeubenville, Ohio, where he took a job of carpenter work on bridges, at which he earned enough to pay his master for his time. He worked at his trade in Steubenville,Chillicothe, New Lisbon and Canton, settling in the latter place late in January, 1 810. He married here Jane Patten, who bore him four chil- dren ; she died Feb. 7, 1818. Sept. 27, 1819, he mar- ried Eliza Wolf, the first schoolmistress in Mansfield, and, in 1821, moved to the latter place, where he re- sided till 1825, when he removed to Plymouth. He lived in Plymouth until his death, which occurred Dec. 23, 1859. During the war of 1812, Mr. D. served as Lieutenant until he recruited two companies, when he was given a captain's commission, and was ordered to the front, where he served under Gen. Harrison. His eldest son, David Armstrong, was licensed as a Meth- odist preacher at the age of 22, and died soon after at Sandusky City. The second son that grew to manhood, John P., was a merchant in Mansfield till the late war, when, in 1861, he enlisted. After the war closed, he settled in Roodhouse, 111., where he is now living. The third son, William W., has been a merchant andfarmer, and now resides in Plymouth. The fourth son, James P., was a lawyer ; he unfortunately lost his life by a steam- boat accident on the Mississippi River when he was 23 years old. The fifth son, Jacob Manuel, is a Presby- terian clergyman in New York City. Two daughters ' and one son died while young. Two daughters are now married — Mrs. Robert McDonough, now living in Plym- outh, and Mrs. B. A. Cash, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

DRENNAN, William W., lawyer. He was born in Canton July 18, 1820 ; when he was about 1 year old, his parents moved to Mansfield, and four years after, to Plymouth ; since then Mr. Drennan has always lived in this county, save four years, when he was residing in Muskingum Co.; three years in Cincinnati, and a temporary residence in the South. When he was 12 years old, he was apprenticed to a dry-goods merchant to learn the business ; the terms of his indenture were service and obedience on his part, and boarding and a monthly payment in money on the master's part, in- stead of "clothing, schooling and freedom suit," as was customary in binding boys in those days ; he was not out of employment until he was 25 years old. At that age, he went into business for himself, succeeding Messrs. Barker, in Plymouth ; since then he has been engaged in mercantile, produce and commission busi- ness and dealing in real estate, and in practicing law. He was married March 28, 1850, to Hannah Brinker- hoS, of Cayuga (^o., N. Y.; they are the par- ents of six children, three of whom died in infancy,

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