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CENTENNIAL
Portrait and Biographical Record
of the
CITY OF DAYTON
and of
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, OHIO
containing
Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens,
together with
The Biographies and Portraits of the Presidents
of the United States and Biographies
of the Governors of Ohio.
Edited by Frank Conover, of Dayton, Ohio.
Published by
A. W. Bowen & Co.
1897
 
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  GEORGE BIXLER, now living in retirement in Brookville, Clay township, Montgomery county, Ohio, was born in Carroll county, Md., Dec. 18, 1820.  His great-great-grandfather came from Germany and settled in Maryland in the old colonial days.  Peter Bixler, grandfather of George, was born in Frederick county, Md., but located in Carroll county early in life, married a Miss Vance, and had born to him the following children:  John, Polly, Samuel, Elizabeth, Sallie, Benjamin and Joel.  The father died in Carroll count, aged eighty-two years, a well-to-do farmer.
     SAMUEL BIXLER, son of Peter and father of George Bixler, was born in Carroll county, Md., Oct. 6, 1799, and in his youthful days learned milling, which he followed for ten years.  He married, in Carroll county, Miss Leah Maus, who was born in 1802, daughter of George and Mary (Kittsmitter) Maus, and to this marriage were born seven children, viz: George, Savilla, Eliza, Margaret (who died at two years of age), Kate, Mary and David Samuel Bixler, after working for several years in his father-in-law’s mill in Maryland, came to Ohio in 1828, and for three months lived in Lewisburg, Preble county; then moved to what was then known as Fisher’s mill, on Twin creek, remained there a year and a half, and then, in 1830, came to Montgomery county and bought a 160-acre farm in Perry township, about ten miles west of Dayton, at $5 per acre, sixty acres being cleared and improved with a good log house and barn.  This farm he paid for in silver--$800; of this sum he borrowed $500 from his father, in Maryland, making the trip thither on horseback.  He stowed the silver in his saddle-bags, and was twelve days in crossing the mountains on his return.  At night he would stop at some old-fashioned inn and trust his saddle-bags to the safe-keeping of the landlord.  Mr. Bixler succeeded in clearing up his farm and in making an excellent home, where he died in 1859, aged nearly sixty years.   He and his wife were members of the New Lutheran church, and in politics Mr. Bixler was a democrat.  He reared his family in respectability, and he himself died, an honored man.
     George Bixler was reared to hard farm labor, and aided his father in clearing the home farm on coming to Ohio, he being then but eight years of age.  He attended school two months each winter until seventeen years old, and at the age of twenty-seven, Feb. 22, 1847, in Perry township, Montgomery county, married Miss Rachael A. Clemmer, who was born Dec. 20, 1827, a daughter of John and Phebe (Nevins) ClemmerJohn Clemmer was a native of Virginia, married in Rockingham county, that state, and brought his family to Ohio, about 1812, and settled on Twin river, in Perry township, Montgomery county, cleared a farm of 160 acres, and there died at the age of eighty-one years.  He was the father of ten children: Fannie, Mary, Jane, John, George, William, Rachael A., Martha, Silas and Catherine.
     Mr. and Mrs. Bixler, just after marriage located on a farm of eighty acres in Perry township, of which fifteen acres had been cleared.  Mr. Bixler lived here but one year, having in the meantime built a log house.  He then moved upon his father’s farm, where he lived for a year, going thence to a farm of 148 acres in the same township. which he still owns.  To this he added until he owned 250 acres in Montgomery county and 380 acres in Darke county, and finally retired from his farm residence to Brookville, Feb. 28, 1895, having given each of his children sufficient means to start them well in life.  In politics Mr. Bixler was first a democrat, but was early imbued with republican ideas, and was one of the organizers of that party in Montgomery county, voting for its first nominee for the presidency of the United States, John C. Fremont.  He and his wife are members of the New Lutheran church, in which faith they have reared their seven children, who were named, in order of birth, Phebe, Samuel, John, Mary, David, William and Jesse F.  The family are held in high esteem throughout the township and in all parts of the county, where the name is widely known.
Source:  Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of the City of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio, publ. 1897 - Page 1229

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