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��Iowa, where he was killed by a falling limb while en- gaged in cutting timber ; his family consisted of seven children, five of whom are living. Dennis is the oldest son and resides near the southeast corner of Springfield Township; he was married April 24, 1861, to Miss Sarah Sweeney ; she died July 8, 1875. -

CONDON, J. M., lives on the southeast quarter of Sec. 29 ; his grandfather, Richard Condon, came into the county in 1814, from Westmoreland Co., Penn.; he entered a body of land at Spring Mills. J. M. Condon was born at this place in 1828, and, when 2 years of age, his father, .John, moved to Plymouth, thence to the farm now owned by Mr. Condon, two years later. He was married on the first day of 1858 to Maria Walters, and has a family of eight children. Mr. Condon comes of a hardy stock of people, who knew well what hard- ships, privations and dangers the early settlers were obliged to endure while clearing their farms and making the improvements which the present generation now enjoy.

COURTNEY, AVILLTAM, sawyer; P. 0. Ontario ; he was born in Troy Township March 26, 1846. He was married in 1873 to Anna Lindsey, who was born in this township June 12, 1852 ; they have two children — Elmer, born Sept. 25, 1874, and Carrie A., Oct. 6, 1876.

CRAIG, WM. N., was born in Jacksnn Township in the year 1828 ; his father came from Belmont Co., Ohio, and settled in the above mentioned township (then Sharon) in 1826; Mr. Craig describes the country as being very wild and unimproved, when he was a boy going to school ; the first teacher he had of whom he can remember, was an old Irishman, named Wm. Bai- ley, who taught in a log schoolhouse near his father's farm ; the scholars were large boys and girls not far advanced, and their illustrious teacher made frequent use of the rod as a means of advancement. There were plenty of wolves and deer, but the more danger- ous wild animals were scarce; they were, however, oc- casionally met with, as will be seen from the following incident which Mr. Craig relates : He and another boy were sent one day to carry a bucket of water for the school ; when they had gone some distance from the house, they met some wild animal, which he now thinks was a panther ; they did not then know what it was ; it sat in the road watching them and lashing its tail against its sides ; presently it jumped behind a tree, and the boys went on unharmed ; Mr. Craig remem- bers when the first railroad train came through the county, his father was some distance from the house at the time, and mistaking the noise for that of a storm coming upon them, ran home with all speed to close the house. Mr. Craig was married in 1857, and has two children ; his wife died in 1875 ; he owns and resides on the northwest quarter of Sec. 8. He is a member of the United Presbyterian Church at Ontario.

CHRISTMAN, CHARLES, farmer; P. 0.* Crestline. He was born in Germany in 1832 ; he came to America in 1849. He was married in 1855 to Mary Elizabeth Delph, who was born in Germany ; they have ten children, Frederick, was born Jan. 1, 1857; Peter, Nov. 14, 1858; George, Sept. 19, 1860; Mary Jane, Feb. 14, 1862; Charlie, July 25, 1864; Louis, Sept. 9, 1866 ; Elizabeth, July 27, 1868 ; Catherine, March 20, 1872 ; John, Nov. 28, 1878 ; Caroline, July 16, 1878.

��Mr. Christman came to Springfield Township twenty-five years ago, and still resides here, owns a good farm.

CROW, JOSEPH, farmer ; P. 0. Ontario.

DAY, MARCUS, came to this county with his father when he was 8 years old. His father came from Washington Co., Penn., where he lived previous to his removal to this State, to this county in 1814, and cleared a small piece of ground in the north part of Troy Township, which he planted in vegetables of dif- ferent kinds, and then returned to Pennsylvania. The next year, he brought his family out, and they moved into a log cabin on his farm. Mr. Day was born in 1808, in Washington Co., Penn. He was married, Sept. 15, 1830, to Mary Ann, daughter of John Young. He united with the Methodist Church when in his 80th year. He has held the offices of Township Trustee and Justice of 'the Peace, the duties of which he discharged with ability and with satisfaction to all. Mr. Day was very fond of hunting when a young man and found plenty of game in the then thickly wooded forests. He tells of the following occurrence which took place when he was still a boy living with his father in their cabin : " His father had started from the house and had gone twenty or thirty rods, when he came running back saying he had heard a rattlesnake and that it was somewhere near the house. On looking they found one which had just crawled from under the cabin. It sported seventeen rattles." Mr. Day moved into Springfield Township in 1830, and now lives on the northwest Quarter of Sec. 36.

EVERITT, PETER, ; P. 0. Ontario. He was born in Westmoreland Co., Penn., July 16, 1838; he came to Ohio in 1865, and was married the same year, to Elzora D. Evans, who was born in Cattaraugus Co., N. Y., March 6, 1848; they have the following family of children : Thomas Miles, was born Oct. 7, 1866; Angelia, July 21, 1868; William M., Sept. 2, 1870; Ella iSIay, June 14, 1873, and Cornelia Maud, Dec. 12, 1874. Angelia died March 16, 1873. Mr Ev- eritt enlisted at the first call for soldiers, for three months, and served his time ; he then enlisted for three years ; he was a member of Co. K, 53d Penn. V. I. ; he was wounded June 1, 1862, in the battle of Fair Oaks, East Virginia ; lost bis left limb; also shot through the right limb ; he received four balls ; after being wounded, he laid on the field of battle four days, without any at- tention, and sutfered intensely ; at the expiration of four days, was put on an ambulance and taken to Savage Station ; he lay there one night, and next morning was put on a freight car with other wounded soldiers, taken to Whitehouse Landing, and from there to a boat (called the State of Maine), and was taken to Fortress Monroe and thence to New York City, then up the Long Island Sound to New Haven, Conn., to the State Hospital; he then at the expiration of nine days, received medical treatment ; he lay nine weeks before his limb was ampu- tated ; three weeks after the amputation, the main artery ruptured, from which bled till his bed was com- pletely saturated ; he was attended by seven nurses, taken from among the soldiers ; the main artery was closely compressed three months, by which process, hi.s life was saved. After the war, Mr. Everitt located in Ontario ; is receiving a pension, and is a worthy citizen.

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