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��he held until the year 1862, when he came to Mansfield, soon after coming to Mansfield, he purchased a farm in the eastern part of Springfield Township, on the Galion road, but continued to reside in Mansfield until the year 1867 ; at this date, he removed his family to that place, and lived there until the fall of 1879, when he made another exchange, and removed to the vicinity of Spring Mills, where he still resides. In all of these removals, Mr. Reinhart has invariably taken property in exceeding poor repair, and left it well improved, and with the value greatly enhanced. He is known as a skillful workman as a carpenter and builder. He is the seventh one of a family of nine children. Four of these are still living : J. Hughes Reinhart, still retains the old home in Green Township, Ashland Co.; B. F. Reinhart, a younger brother, has attained to high emi- nence in art circles as a portrait and landscape painter; and an aged sister, Mrs. Eliza Dalley, resides in Han- cock Co., Ohio.

RINGER, ELIAS, merchant, Ontario. He was born in Stark Co. .Jan. 28, 18'25. He was married in 1849 to Mary A. Hohenshil, who was born Oct. 7, 1826. They have the following family : Caroline, born Feb. 1 8, 1850; Parven M., Oct. 30, 1852 ; Lydia R., March 14, 1861. Mr. Ringer came to this township in 1853, engaged in farming till 1878, then engaged in the mercantile business in Ontario, where he is doing a prosperous and successful business.

ROE, JOSEPH, farmer ; P. 0. Ontario. His parents, Thomas D. and Elizabeth Roe, were married in Orange Co., N. Y., in November 1802. His father's ancestors emigrated from England some generations previous ; on his mother's side from Holland. His mother's father, .Judge Holmes, was from Ireland and settled in Newton, N. .J., and his mother was a native of New .Jersey. His parents came from Jeiferson Co., Ohio, 1804, and lived a few years about seven miles west of Steubenville. When the war of 1812 com- menced, his father was drafted, and went to Mackinaw and other points under Col. Cotgrove ; William Alban was his Captain, and Lieut. Solomon Gladden, late of Monroe Township in this county, his Orderly Sergeant ; he went for six months, and while absent Joseph was born. May 18, 1814; when his father returned from the army, the family moved to Richland Co. in .July, 1815, and settled in Vermillion Township, two miles northeast of Hayesville. In .July, 1835, the subject of this sketch was married to Miss .Jane Woods, and moved to Springfield Township, where he commenced improving a new farm, then in the woods, the south- east quarter of Sec. 19, one and a half miles west of the village of Ontario. After many years of toil, he succeeded in getting this land under a good state of cultivation. His wife died in April, 1838, leav- ing a daughter who survived her but a few years ; he was again married in December, 1839, to ^liss [Margaret Chambers, who died in August, 1840. In October, 1848, he was married to Miss Martha Ann Lorimor, of Guern- sey Co., Ohio. They have been permitted to rai^e nine children; the oldest, J. A., married ]\Iiss Crooks, and is a farmer ; the second, Maggie M. .J., married A. F. Sawhill, a druggist, and lives in Pittsburgh, Penn. ; the third, J. C, is a minister and lives in Beaver Co., Penn. ; the fourth, Sarah M., married .J. Q. Codding,

��an attorney, and lives in Marion, Ohio ; the fifth, T. S., married Miss Gibson, is a farmer, and lives in Madison Co., Iowa; the sixth, C. M., is a dentist in Mansfield ; the seventh, Susannah L., the eighth, Lewis W., the ninth, Lillian May — the three younger — are at home. Mr. Roe has been active and prominent in his neighbor- hood both politically, and otherwise. In an early day he was prominently identified with the "underground railway," and with his hands, his infiuence and vote, worked against slavery until it went down in the great war of the rebellion. In the history of Springfield Township, his movements in this and all public interests are fully given.

ROE, G. W., was born in Ashland Co. Aug 16, 1825, and came to Richland Co. wken a boy 7 or 8 years old: soon afterward he went to Sandusky, where he lived two years with a brother ; he then rettirned to this county, and lived with his brother, Joseph Roe. until he became of age. He married Susanna Otfineer, and by this marriage had nine children, one of whom is dead. They are members of the Methodist Church Mr. Roe owns a part of the southwest quarter of Sec. 80 ; he has been engaged for some years in selling medicine*, prepared by Dr. U. C. Roe, for which he claims superior healing properties, especially for chronic diseases.

SEIBERT & BRO., blacksmiths; are following their trade, two miles south of Ontario, where they are ready to do all kinds of repairing, whenever wanted ; horse- shoeing is made a specialty. They are of German des- cent, their father, Adam, having been born in Germany, in the year 1812 ; he came over in 1830, and settled in Washington Co., Penn.; removed to Mansfield in 1839, and, in the fall of 1879, to Springfield Township, when his sons erected their shop, and began work at their trade, which they had previously followed in Mansfield.

SHAFER, J. M., an emigrant from Bavaria, Ger- many, Sept. 29, 1823; his parents were wealthy, and gave him an education necessary for a veterinary sur- geon. After attending the public schools for some time, he continued his studies at home, under the instruction of a tutor; when he was 24 years of age. he obtained permission from his father to visit the United States, promising to return in two years; he came herein 1847, and worked one year at blacksmithing in a carriage-shop at Mansfield. In' 1848, he was married to Verone Divel, and removed to Washington Township, where he lived a short time, when he bought a piece of land in the southern part of Springfield Township, and moved there ; he soon sold this place, and purchased the southwest quarter of Sec. 9, where he now lives. Mr. Shafer has living nine boys and six girls; four of whom are mar- ried. Farming and stock-raising are his occupations.

STEWART, ROBERT, resides in the south part of Sec. 3, on a farm of 143 acres ; he was born in Jeiferson Co., Ohio, and came into this county in 1816, with his father, who settled on a piece of land near where Mr. Stewart now lives. The land was, at that time, almost entirely covered with timber. The mill to which they carried their corn — on horseback at first — was thirty or forty miles distant. Mr. Stewart was married in 1844, and now lives with his family, on the farm he cleared, and in the county whose varied steps of improve- ment he has observed since the days of the early pio- neers.

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